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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: A Question of Duty Military - Whistblower, David McBride
Description: There is something not quite right about Military Whistleblower, David McBride. I remember when David’s father William McBride was presented to the world as a hero for exposing thalidomide … actually it was probably not even McBride who discovered that thalidomide caused defects in children … the ABC claims it was a midwife, Sister Pat Sparrow. [ABC: “Dr William McBride: The flawed character credited with linking thalidomide to birth defects” @ https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-06-29/thalidomide-william-mcbride-flawed-character-norman-swan/9920608]
Why did David go to Afghanistan?
McBride: “I went to grad school in Sydney, I joined the British military first, I went to Sand...