Word: massee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
But Dr. Gilbert F. Whittemore, a formerinstructor at both Harvard and MIT, vehementlydisagrees with Masse. In an interview this week,Whittemore said scientists conducting radiationexperiments in the 1940s and 1950s were well awareof the ethical importance of a test subject'sconsent because of the publicity following theNuremberg trials after World...
Masse maintained the lack of the subjects'consent would have had no effect on participationin the study.
"It would have made no difference in theparticipation in the study because in 1945 therewas a great...cry over the use of radioactivematerial. It was a great thing," Masse said.
Masse said the studies were prompted byconcerns over the nutrition of the boys at theschool. "It was for the boy's benefit. Theirhealth was the reason for the study," he said.
The second experiment was conducted undersimilar circumstances, Masse said. "That time theywere worried about calcium. The boys were still onheavy cereal diets, which is why Quaker Oatsfunded both of the studies."