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Benda, a Medical School professor, served as the director of clinical psychiatry at the Fernald State School for the retarded from 1946 to 1962. In 1954, he reported in the Journal of Nutrition on a study in which retarded children at the school were fed radioactive milk with their breakfast cereal to monitor their intake of calcium...
...Former Fernald residents have said repeatedly in interviews and in testimony before a special U.S. Senate panel that they were not told of the radiation used in the experiments. Instead, the students participating in the tests say researchers, including Benda, referred to them as members of a "Science Club...
...questions about what exactly went on at Fernald will not be answered until Harvard and a state task force representing the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation complete their investigations...
Corlette said Harvard is "very close" to sending relevant documents to the Fernald School and that the first shipment could leave Harvard within "a day or two." Corlette said some of the documents sent to Fernald have to do with Benda's experiments...
...large part of the papers are patient files,including case histories, psychiatric evaluations,photographs and charts. The boxes contain filesfrom the Fernald School, from Benda's privatepractice in Boston and from Berlin, where he wastrained as a doctor...