He'd been hired by a judge in Ohio to look at Bendectin as sort of an independent expert.

彼得：俄亥俄州的一位法官聘请他将本德汀视为独立专家。

He'd read this article about Bendectin.

彼得：他读过这篇关于本德汀的文章。

And so the question was: does Bendectin actually carry a higher risk for birth defects?

彼得：所以问题是：Bendectin 真的会带来更高的出生缺陷风险吗？

And one day, this little girl's family came to him with a problem about Bendectin.

有一天，这个小女孩的家人来找他，提出了一个关于本德汀的问题。

And then in the group of women who had taken Bendectin, you also had a rate of about three per hundred.

然后，在服用 Bendectin 的女性群体中，比率也约为百分之三。

He eventually becomes an expert witness in these cases, the Bendectin cases, including Joyce's.

彼得：他最终成为这些案件的专家证人，本德廷案件，包括乔伊斯的案件。

And so one day he gets a call from a lawyer who asks him if he can look into Bendectin.

彼得：有一天，他接到一位律师的电话，询问他是否可以调查本德汀。

And so what he ended up with was the largest collection of human data that had been amassed on Bendectin.

彼得：所以他最终得到的是本德汀收集的最大的人类数据。

PAMELA YATES: I was a one-year lawyer, and I had been put in charge of claims of birth defects due to Bendectin.

帕梅拉·耶茨：我是一名为期一年的律师，负责处理因本德汀导致的出生缺陷索赔。

I don't think so but, like, it's not that I know that Bendectin caused my birth defects, it is that I think that it's probable.

我不这么认为，但是，并不是我知道 Bendectin 导致了我的出生缺陷，而是我认为这很可能。

And the article is about this little girl and her family who had just won a settlement against Merrell Dow, which was a pharmaceutical company that made a drug called Bendectin, a drug for morning sickness.

彼得：这篇文章是关于这个小女孩和她的家人的，她刚刚赢得了与 Merrell Dow 的和解，Merrell Dow 是一家制药公司，生产一种名为 Bendectin 的药物，这是一种治疗孕吐的药物。