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...suit--brought against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quaker Oats and several doctors at the state Fernald School in Waltham--was filed in U.S. District Court Friday on behalf of 15 children used as test subjects as Fernald during the 1940s and 1950s...
Some experiments carried out on the children during the Cold War were for military or medical purposes. But according to Michael Mattchen, the lawyer who filed the suit, much of the research done at Fernald was for the commercial benefit of Quaker Oats...
...find "sufficient evidence that wrongs were committed against the children who participated in the experiments at the Fernald School...
...suit names the former superintendent and medical director at Fernald, four MIT scientists, the two Harvard Medical School doctors, three former employees at Fernald, a representative of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the state Department of Mental Retardation and the Quaker Oats Co., which helped fund the experiments...
Gerald Ryan, a spokesperson for both Fernald and the state's Department of Mental Retardation, said the department has identified and contacted the Fernald students--74 in all--who participated in two sets of radiation tests...