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That release comes in the wake of a May report by the Fernald state School which said that Harvard and MIT researchers conducted such experiments on dozens of retarded students from the 1940s to the 1960s...
Together with the rest of the nation, we have watched with horror as details of radiation tests on unknowing subjects during the 1940s and fifties have become known. And we have been especially distressed upon learning that some of the tests--those that took place at the Walter E. Fernald State School for the retarded in Waltham--were led by Harvard faculty...
Harvard, MIT and the state should expeditiously acknowledge the full extent of their responsibility for the Fernald experiments and should be forthcoming with substantial financial compensation that includes lifelong health care for the victims. Refusing to do so--and extending this saga further through legal maneuvers and court battles--would only compound the tragedy of the crimes that were committed. February...
...congressional panel convenes at the Fernald State School to hear testimony from former Fernald students about the experiments...
Harvard lawyers order medical School librarians to seal the files of a former faculty member, the late Dr. Clemens E. Benda, who was the medical director at Fernald and oversaw the experiments. The library hires an independent archivist to sort through 27 boxes of Benda's files...