What's the Story Behind Thalitymide?

Doctors trying to make a new anibiotic would first try to test it as a sleeping pill. Some suspect the rat study was fabricated in order to provide clean scientific evidence that thelid it had promise as a sedative. But it is an extremely effective sedative for human beings. It just doesn't sedate rats. Other pharmaceudical companies later tried and failed to replicate telitamide sedative property on animals, and they failed.