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...Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor conducted radiation experiments on scores of retarded students at the Fernald School in the 1940s and 1950s, documents show...
...most hideous experiments, first reported on December 26 by the Boston Globe, scores of mentally retarded children at the Fernald School in Waltham, Mass., were given radioactive iron and calcium with their breakfast cereal. The experiments, conducted by Harvard and MIT scientists from 1946 to 1956, were done without fully disclosing the hazards to all the subjects, the newspaper said...
...state Department of Mental Retardation this week assembled a task force made up of attorneys, physicians, mental retardation experts and patient advocates to investigate the experiments at the Fernald school...
...experts also expressed strong concernabout the reports of the Fernald tests and other,even more hazardous experiments which wereproposed by MIT and Harvard scientists...
...sufficiently provoked, consumes a person with rage, thirst, hunger or desire. In animals, a region at the front of the organ controls sexual function and is somewhat larger in males than in females. But its size need not remain constant. Studies of tropical fish by Stanford University neurobiologist Russell Fernald reveal that certain cells in this tiny region of the brain swell markedly in an individual male whenever he comes to dominate a school. Unfortunately for the piscine pasha, the cells will also shrink if he loses control of his harem to another male...