That's the thrust of the so-called apology from the Grünenthal Group, the manufacturer of Thalidomide.
More than fifty years after deformed babies began being born to mothers who had taken Thalidomide, the manufacturer unveiled some bullshit bronze memorial and issued its non-apologetic Rumsfeldian apology.*
No small wonder that the families of the victims and the surviving victims are not the least bit amused.
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* From Donald Rumsfeld's famous reaction to the widespread looting in Baghdad.
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Nothing has changed in 50 years. Around the country (and for all I know, around the world) people who've had hip replacements made by a company called DePuy (once owned by, and I believe now sold off by Johnson & Johnson) are facing second rounds of surgery because the defective hips failed in their bodies.
Evidently, the DePuy people knew the hips were failing, but kept on marketing them for a while, figuring it would be cheaper to settle with the injured than to forego the profits.
Keep that in mind when you hear Willard Romney and his fellow Republicans tell you how they're going to stop all this dangfool regulation, so that companies can make a profit and "create jobs."
Nevermind some German pill pusher. The governments of the world ought to be apologizing for not having stronger regulations and enforcing them more vigorously.
Who knows what you swallowed today, or had a surgeon insert in your body, that will kill you tomorrow.
Crankily yours,
The New York Crank
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