Odd that no one talking about thalidomide and the FDA ever mentions how long ago the thalidomide tragedy occurred, or how different everything is now, especially with respect to it being a quite useful drug.

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Now everything is different.

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Driven mostly by technological progress and global integration, the speed of everything is going up and up, and this is now demanding that we run organizations in a different way.

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