Mint, Thalodmide and Law

Artificial limbs made for an affected child in the 1960s by the Department of Health and Social Security's Limb Fitting Centre in Roehampton, London

Note the following regarding 2 notable persons recently added to wikipedias deaths in 2025 site: 

• Morton Mintz (January 26, 1922 – July 28, 2025) 103, investigative journalist (The Washington Post). He exposed thalidomide scandal. 

• Myint Swe (24 May 1951 – 7 August 2025)  74, Burmese acting president (2021–2024) complications from Parkinson's disease.

They also share in common the word “mint” found in their names by applying the “Remove a Letter in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster, one of the means used by the inner twin world to communicate.  The word itself, “mint” is meant to factor into the cryptic communication, butt it may be small, and when you think of it, the surname Mintz was strategically designed to be pronounced as the word “mince” for a reason, … a word that means “to make small”, … a phrase that is particularly meaningful given that the thalidomide scandal involved birth defects such as “small limbs”.  In fact, one of my class mates was a “thalidomide baby”— one of his arms small.  I take this to be a prompt to investigate the thalidomide wikipedia page (see excerpts below).  Note the following information on notable persons as a result:

• Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey (July 24, 1914 – August 7, 2015)
• Carey Estes Kefauver (July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963)  
• Oren Harris (December 20, 1903 – February 5, 1997)
• Louis Cesare Lasagna (February 22, 1923 – August 6, 2003)
• James Joseph Delaney (March 19, 1901 – May 24, 1987)
• Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) 
• Jacob Sheskin (1914 – April 17, 1999)
• Moses Judah Folkman (February 24, 1933 – January 14, 2008)

Several things stand out in regards to the above dates: Myint Swe and Kelsey died on August 7ths, and Lasagna died just one day before on August 6th (an addition to the “Off By One” pattern cluster).  Also an addition to the cluster is May 24th, given that May 23 is the day of the year where 222 days remain.  Also, Delaney died on Myint’s and Taussig’s birthday and so generating a “May 24(x3)” pattern cluster.  The birthdays of Kelsey, Kefauver and Mintz’s death, generates a “July 24, 26, 28/Even Days Date Sequence” pattern cluster.  Lasagna’s birthday is also the birthday of my grandson (note when he turned 8, the date was 2/22/22.  As well, Kefauver died on the 222nd day of the year.  Sequences of 2’s are a particular trademark of the inner “twin” world.  As well, Sheskin’s date of death, April 17, is my son-in-law’s birthday.  We also have a “__, February 24, …, May 24(x3),__, July 24, …/24th Day, Month Sequence” pattern cluster.  If we investigate the May 24th Wikipedia page and apply the formula, we arrive at: 

• 2000 – Kurt Erich Schork (January 24, 1947 – May 24, 2000)  American journalist  

As you can see, his birthday expands the above cluster and bridging one of the two gaps and creating a new one:

“January 24, February 24,__, …, May 24(x3),__, July 24, …/24th Day, Month Sequence” pattern cluster.  

Note the following information regarding notable persons found on Myint’s wiki page: 

• Ne Win (24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002)
• Maung Aye (born 25 December 1937) 
• Thein Sein (born 20 April 1944)
• Tin Aung Myint Oo (born 29 May 1949) 

So do note the cryptic “no win” in the name Ne Win!!  His birthday adds to the above clusters re: “May 24(x4)” pattern cluster, and “January 24, February 24,__, …, May 24(x4),__, July 24, …/24th Day, Month Sequence” pattern cluster. 

Coming back to the cryptic communication in the name “Myint Swe”, … we could move the letters to make a cryptic phrase re:  “my in swet”… or “my in sweat”, and do note the following AI response when googling whether mint causes sweat: 

Yes, mint can induce sweating, primarily through the cooling sensation it provides via the menthol it contains.

note what the online etymology search engine brings up on searching “swet”: 

hetaera(n.)

1820, "mistress," from Medieval Latin hetaera, from Greek hetaira "female companion," fem. of hetairos "comrade, companion, good friend," from PIE *swet-aro-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, pronoun of the third person and reflexive (see idiom).

As well, from a small group of notable persons affected by Thalidomide, one stood out:  

• Alvin Law, Canadian motivational speaker and former radio broadcaster

His surname being an addition to the recent “Law/Court Theme” pattern cluster.  Note the following information on a notable person mentioned on his wiki page: 

John Lewis Solomon (born May 23, 1950)

He was born on the day of the year where 222 days remain.  

I’ll leave it up to you to do the rest—follow the leads.  

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Research: 

In 1962, Mintz broke the story of thalidomide, the sedative/tranquilizer that caused several thousand children worldwide to be born without arms, legs, or any limbs at all. Although the press greeted the advent of the original oral contraceptive uncritically, he revealed that in approving The Pill, in 1960, the FDA had launched the greatest uncontrolled medical experiment in human history.

On the thalidomide and Thalidomide Scandal wikipedia pages: 

• Those who survived had limb, eye, urinary tract, and heart problems.^[9] Its initial entry into the US market was prevented by Frances Kelsey, a reviewer at the FDA.^[11] The birth defects caused by thalidomide led to the development of greater drug regulation and monitoring in many countries.
• The disaster prompted many countries to introduce tougher rules for the testing and licensing of drugs, such as the 1962 Kefauver Harris Amendment 
• The bill by U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, and U.S. Representative Oren Harris, of Arkansas, required drug manufacturers to provideproof of the effectiveness and safety of their drugs before approval. 
• Louis Lasagna, then a prominent clinical pharmacologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, advised Congress about the proper conduct of clinical research during the 1962 hearings leading up to passage of the Amendment.
• The law also exempted from the "Delaney clause" (a 1958 amendment to the Food, Drugs, and Cosmetic Act of 1938) certain animal drugs and animal feed additives shown to induce cancer, but which left no detectable levels of residue in the human food supply.
• Cardiologist Helen B. Taussig learned of the damaging effects of the drug thalidomide on newborns and in 1967, testified before Congress on this matter after a trip to Germany where she worked with infants with phocomelia (severe limb deformities). As a result of her efforts, thalidomide was banned in the United States and Europe
• In 1964, Israeli physician Jacob Sheskin administered thalidomide to a patient critically ill with leprosy. The patient exhibited erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), a painful skin condition, one of the complications of leprosy. The treatment was attempted despite the ban on thalidomide's use, and the results were favourable
• Little further work was done with thalidomide in cancer until the 1990s.^[69]Judah Folkman pioneered studies into the role of angiogenesis (the proliferation and growth of blood vessels) in the development of cancer, and in the early 1970s had shown that solid tumors could not expand without it
• Alvin Law, Canadian motivational speaker and former radio broadcaster