Bringing up Thalidomide is doing the tin hat rounds. Saw it several times on social media yesterday.
Also, and I know it’s not worth engaging with conspiracy “theorists” because they’re not dealing in rational thought, but just because something was believed to be the correct option at one point only to subsequently turn out not to be, it doesn’t mean we should never do anything again.
If a player missed a penalty because he slipped while trying to put it in the top corner, does that mean no player should ever aim for the top corner again? Should Mark Howard never come for a cross because he dropped that one at Exeter?