RFK Jr.: 'Thalidomide Was Approved by Scientists—One Woman’s Courage Stopped It in America'

RFK Jr: "In 1963, my uncle awarded... the highest civilian honour to Frances Kelsey... a young scientist at NIH who came in and objected to the panel having approved thalidomide for American children."

"All the scientists of that day... approved, green-lighted thalidomide. She stood up and screamed, and fought, and risked her job, and risked her reputation, and she blocked it in our country."

"Three years later, everybody knew... that she was a hero... because we were not getting the kind of terrible, diabolical deformities as they were experiencing in Europe... because she questioned science and was courageous enough to stand up and say, I don't care what happens to me, this cannot happen."