Bendectin

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Still, throughout the 1980s, Merrell stood by Bendectin's safety, and its own expert witnesses maintained the drug did not cause birth defects.

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As a form of social policy, some scholars contend that the Bendectin litigation was an illegitimate form of pharmaceutical regulation.

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Thirteen days after that, the company pulled the drug off the market — a move that, according to Michael D. Green, author of the 1996 book "Bendectin and Birth Defects," convinced many people that "there were hidden teratologic skeletons in Merrell's closet."

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At the time, the Bendectin lawsuits snowballed into what's known as a mass tort, where multiple plaintiffs bring civil action against a single corporate defender.

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At the time, the Bendectin suits landed squarely in the debate over "junk science," a term popularized in the early 1990s by Peter Huber, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank in New York City.

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