Word: 1940s
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...Harvard Medical School dean testified yesterday during a Senate committee hearing at the Fernald State School, where Harvard scientists conducted radiation experiments on retarded students in the 1940s...
...Harvard News Office disclosed last week that the University was investigating its involvement in the experiments, which occured at the Fernald State School for the retarded in the 1940s and 1950s...
...Gilbert F. Whittemore, a formerinstructor at both Harvard and MIT, vehementlydisagrees with Masse. In an interview this week,Whittemore said scientists conducting radiationexperiments in the 1940s and 1950s were well awareof the ethical importance of a test subject'sconsent because of the publicity following theNuremberg trials after World...
Whittemore said people in the 1940s and 1950swere generally unaware of the dangers posed byradiation. "It was an uphill battle trying toconvince people to become safe. Things thatnowadays are just a part of our culture back thenwere not," Whittemore said...
...story, Walsh said, stands out in his mind.In the early 1940s, James Michael Curley, "themost famous mayor Boston ever had," heard O'Neillspeak...