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...letter, Wilson wrote that a 1954experiment with radiation at the Fernald StateSchool for the retarded involved "little or norisk" to the retarded test subjects. The professorcalled recent comparisons between theseexperiments and tests conducted by the Nazis onhuman subjects "carelessly done...
...Dockham said the comparison was legitimate.He cited as an example the consent form thatparents of children in the Fernald experiment wereasked to sign. The form makes no mention ofradiation...
...letter seeking permission to use students in the experiments, Fernald superintendent Malcolm J. Fernald who participated in the tests also have repeatedly testified that they were never toldof the radiation...
...1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Harvard hadextraordinarily close ties to Fernald, whereMedical School and School of Public Healthstudents and professors held lectures, workshopsand demonstrations, according to 1959 reportdisclosed in The Crimson Wednesday...
...report, which discusses the details ofcooperative training programs between universitiesand residential facilities for the mentally ill,showed that Harvard used Fernald for much morethan just one experiment by an affiliatedphysician...