Word: krugman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agencies that set vaccine policy in the United States, the Bureau of Biologics at the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control, tend to rely repeatedly on the same few experts for advice. For example, the Bureau's semi-independent advisory board is chaired by Saul Krugman, who gained notoriety (unfairly, some researchers believe) for infecting retarded children with hepatitis in order to study their condition, and many other members of the board have also experimented in state schools for the retarded. The board is not likely, then, to rigidly enforce ethical standards against other researchers...