Reposted by Ben Rowe
my favorite fact about the formation of the FDA was that it was largely in response to one quack who endorsed surgically grafting goat balls into your body as a panacea, and then spread out into a variety of branded snake oils and other quackery which sold like wildfire because he had a radio show
![Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on a film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, this landmark film is considered one of the great science-fiction films of the 1950s,[4] a precursor of contemporary science-fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plot contains certain happenings analogous to the play, leading many to consider it a loose adaptation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zei6djzculj4gsgn2jvf7acm/bafkreifwjitgyxkynk7wsuar7pgon2zuzk2gz3swrjnxcjyropc6cevok4)
