
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, December 27, 1993                   TAG: 9312270073
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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RADIATION EXPERIMENTS DONE ON RETARDED BOYS

Nineteen mentally retarded boys who thought they were participating in a science club in the 1940s and 1950s were actually fed radioactive milk by scientists who wanted to learn about the digestive system, The Boston Sunday Globe reported.

The experiment is one of several radiation studies from that time that have come under ethical scrutiny this year. The growing number of questionable experiments has led to a federal investigation of radiation experiments done on people.

The experiments, carried out from 1946 to 1956, were done on retarded boys at the Fernald State School in Waltham, Mass. - The New York Times

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