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...story of Harvard professors experimenting on human subjects becomes more and more disturbing by the day. Evidently, students at the Fernald School were unwittingly fed radioactive food. Outraged Harvard students have been the first to protest this ethical breach. But perhaps this story should start us Harvard students worrying about ourselves. They told the Fernald kids and their parents that the children were brighter than the others and would be members of "a Science Club." They tell us and our parents that we're the cream of the academic crop and that we attend "the top college in America." They...
...Fernald State School in Waltham has been the early flashpoint. The late Harvard faculty member Dr. Clemens E. Benda fed children milk with radioactive tracers with their breakfast cereal as part of a nutrition study in the 1950s...
This much, the University and state officials have acknowledged. But news of other radioactive experiments at Fernald, which was used as a virtual colony for Harvard scientists in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, is just starting to break...
...light of the discovery of these experiments, along with those at the Fernald School, I will insist that the Federal Inter-Agency Task Force give heightened attention to experiments with developmentally challenged children as part of its efforts to provide full disclosure of human radiation experiments," Markey said...
...Task Force, which was established by Philip Campbell, Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation, is examining all aspects of the radiation experiments at the Fernald State School and other state facilities. They are studying research (both published and unpublished), trying to identify and locate individuals who may have participated in the tests and determine their current status. A report of their findings is due to Commissioner Campbell on March...