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Richard Robison, a Department of Mental Retardation official, suggested that the more than 200 retarded patients studied at the Wrentham and Fernald state schools be examined for thyroid cancer...
Benda was Fernald's medical director at thetime and also a faculty member at the HarvardMedical School...
Many other radiation research violations have recently come to light. At the Wrentham State School in Massachusetts in 1961, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor and a Harvard researcher fed "mentally defective" children aged one to 11 small doses of radioactive iodine, according to the Fernald report...
...matter who knew about the experiments, the May report issued by Fernald leaves no doubt that such tests occurred, at least in Massachusetts...
Frederick M. Misilo Jr., chair of the state Task Force to Review Human Subject Research, said the nutrition studies conducted at Fernald in the 1940s and 1950s caused "no significant health effects" to the tests' subjects...