... have told people that medicines and other practices were safe when they blatantly were not (Thalidomide, vCJD etc - medical science moves all the time and new knowledge shifts our understanding).Hmmm.... dunno about the others, but I do know that the Thalidomide issue did not come about because of the scientists being 'nasty' (as Doherty seems to be proposing), but because it was not realise