How one scientist averted a national health crisis – Andrea Tone

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In 1960, Frances Kelsey was among the Food as well as Drug Administration’s newest recruits. Before the year was out, she would certainly begin a fight that would certainly conserve thousands of lives– though no one understood it at the time. Andrea Tone describes how Kelsey was able to prevent a substantial national public health disaster by privileging realities over viewpoints, as well as patience over short-cuts.

Lesson by Andrea Tone, animation by TED-Ed.

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