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...late Harvard professor, Dr. Clemens E. Benda, performed tests with radiation at the Fernald State School in Waltham...
...Benda's experiments involved using radioactive tracers in milk as a way of monitoring the calcium uptake of the retarded students. While ethicists have objected to the Benda tests because students were not notified of the radiation used, medical experts say the amount of radiation did not pose a health threat...
Harvard's Countway Medical Library contains the collected papers of a former faculty member, Dr. Clemens E. Benda, who worked at Fernald and performed experiments with radiation on students there. Many of the papers likely came from those files...
Several Harvard Medical School faculty members had close links to Fernald in the Cold War era. And Benda led a nutrition experiment at the school in which the retarded students were fed radioactive milk with their breakfast cereal...
Still, since learning of the Fernald tragedy, the University has not behaved blamelessly. Harvard has sealed the Benda files, citing a threat to the privacy of his patients. But this excuse seems disingenuous. After all, those files have been available for scholars to view for years and Harvard never once expressed any concerns for patient privacy during all that time...