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Radioactive material was fed to more than a dozen children at a state home for the retarded fifty years ago to give Quaker Oats an advantage over Cream of Wheat, according to a $60 million federal suit filed last week...
...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...
...Mattchen maintained in an interview yesterday with The Crimson that Harvard's connection to the research was merely tangential. Accordingly, Mattchen said, Harvard University was not named in the suit...
According to the suit, the children were told they were part of a science club to trick them into participating, and some of them were exposed to more radiation than federal limits allowed...