Critical Race Theory and Who should get vaccinated (hint: everyone but Whites)
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Anyone seen Utopia yet?
And actually, Thalidomide was very thoroughly tested on a variety of species. Unfortunately, it only affects one non-human the same way it does the human - and that species is, ironically enough, the Guinea "Pig". And I recall reading a few years ago where it was being reinvestigated for other uses, with, of course, the caveat that pregnant human women can't have anything to do with it, no matter what.
And Dr. Kelsey apparently saw something in those test results that the governments of a bunch of other countries didn't (though not specifically about birth defects as I recall) and refused approval, leading to pressure on the FDA to approve the drug in the US as it was internationally, rather than waiting for further testing. I mean if I'm wrong about that do feel free to point out something other than the official line.
And yeah, it's apparently a good drug for other things.
Really, the Thalidomide case is more of an example of why "animal" testing is shit. They're like us enough to rely on experiments on them, but not like us enough to care about their suffering? Bullshit. You want results, use non-functioning, head-banging human retards instead. More ethical all the way around, and the results will be more sure for a human, because wE'rE nOt RaTs, at least when the results aren't something humans want to see (as in the psychological studies that have unfortunate implications for humans. I like how people expected rats in the Universe 25-like experiments to arrange themselves as if they weren't social, and were surprised that they clustered in "cities", rather than just individually claiming territory and spreading out equally. Gee, I guess they would expect humans in a Gilligan's Island situation to not work together, too? Dumbassed supremacists.)