[dhmholley]

And unfortunately it often is used that way, by people who don't understand that animal testing would have caught the birth defects had it been tested on pregnant animals (advocating, if anything, for more thorough animal testing, not for animal testing's ineffectiveness). Of course people aren't interested in this, they're just after the conclusion that supports their preconceived ideas.

[Luc]

It was tested extensively on animals before release, and even after it was suspected of causing deformities, tests on pregnant dogs, cats, monkeys, hamsters and chickens were done and failed to produce deformities.

Eventually they showed up in a particular strain of rabbits.

But hey, that was long ago.

[dhmholley]

If you have some citations for that I'd be interested in reading them, because I've never heard that before.