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How a Perfectly Safe Drug Became America's Most Forbidden Molecule
How a Perfectly Safe Drug Became America's Most Forbidden Molecule
A single chemist's small molecular tweak produced a compound that never failed a clinical safety test yet was placed on the United States' most restricted roster in February 1973 - how did that happen, and who decided the science no longer mattered? This episode traces DOET from Alexander Shulgin's lab notes and three favorable peer-reviewed trials to a vanished patent and a legal collapse that derailed its development.
In this episode, we follow the timeline of DOET's discovery, the institutional research path at Dow and…
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