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These are serious and troubling questions about why children at an institution such as the Wrentham School were chosen to participate in this research. We are committed to exploring these questions not only though continued cooperation with the DMR Task Force, but also through a special Harvard faculty committee that has been formed to review research involving human subjects in decades past...
...least some past or present residents of the Wrentham school and their families may be learning about this research for the first time. We very much regret the anxiety that this news may cause them. Please know that we are working cooperatively with the Task Force and others to understand more about the research, to seek the identity of participants, and to assess any possible risks to their health. However small the tracer doses of radiation involved, the research raises important questions about why residents of the Wrentham School were chosen to participate, and we are determined to pursue those...
...children in the experiment attended the Wrentham State School for the retarded, which is administered by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation...
...Harvard task force is examining the University's involvement in Cold War era radiation experiments, including those at Fernald and at Wrentham. Harvard turned the Wrentham study over to the mental retardation department along with a series of other documents on Friday...
This most recent experiment was performed over a four-month period in 1961 and 1962 at the state school in Wrentham, a suburb located an hour's drive south of Boston...