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Harvard Medical School instructor Dr. Clemens E. Benda, who died in 1975, supervised a series of experiments at the Fernald School from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s...
...Benda, who was a Harvard faculty member until the late 1960s, wrote Fernald parents seeking permission to include their sons in the experiments. One letter says the children had "volunteered" to participate in the tests. In another, Benda says the absence of consent by parents or guardians would be taken as an assumption that permission had been granted...
...Benda never mentioned that radioactivity would be used in the tests...
...awkward moment for the task force,Charles Dyer, a subject of one of Benda'sexperiments and a task force member, appeared toquestion some of the report's findings. Dyer, 53,said he thought it was possible that test subjectshad suffered health effects and wondered whetherthe government or universities might be coveringup the existence of experiments...
...example, Dr. Clemens E. Benda, a HarvardMedical School faculty member, was so closelyinvolved in the testing at Fernald that he wrote aletter to the mother of a Fernald patient askingher to delay the family vacation because her son"is cooperating in a science test and it isextremely important that he be here on the 1st and2nd of July...