"A Touch of Buchenwald"

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Brian Howell

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May 4, 2016, 11:10:36 PM5/4/16
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You may have been aware that the US government intentionally exposed soldiers to radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. But there were many victims, all in the name of science. Some were—supposedly—terminal patients at UCSF who were exposed to plutonium obtained  from Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Others were pregnant women. Still others were simply poor and sometimes black—and hence unlikely to have access to legal counsel.

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/human-radiation-experiments-united-states-government


Scott Hotes

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May 5, 2016, 1:57:40 AM5/5/16
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FWIW, the school I attended (Case Western Reserve University) had a long history of performing radiation experiments.  If I recall correctly going back to the 1920's.  The small physics library had a handful of books from that era with no shortage of photographic plates detailing birth defects and other oddities in animals resulting from tests.  No humans that I recall, but maybe those were destroyed.  A story went around about one professor and a handful of his graduate students who quietly disappeared during this period.

Scott


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jack saunders

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May 5, 2016, 4:06:25 PM5/5/16
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The classic Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Nuel Davis tells of a Saturday night when Lawrence and his physicist brother Frank put their cancer-ridden mother into the car and secretly drove her to the Berkeley cyclotron where they gave her a dose of radiation.  It was medical malpractice and worse, but these men were scientists first.  Mrs. Lawrence's cancer did go into remission, but only for a short time.  Hubris?  Madness?  What?
 


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Vince Koloski

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May 6, 2016, 3:38:07 PM5/6/16
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