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Numerous human radiation experiments have been performed in the United States, many of which were funded by various U.S. government agencies[1] such as the United States Department of Defense, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and the United States Public Health Service. Experiments including:

  • feeding radioactive material to mentally disabled children[2]
  • enlisting doctors to administer radioactive iron to impoverished pregnant women [3]
  • exposing U.S. soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation[2]
  • irradiating the testicles of prisoners, which caused severe birth defects[2]
  • exhuming bodies from graveyards to test them for radiation (without the consent of the families of the deceased)[4]

On January 15, 1994, President Bill Clinton formed the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE), chaired by Ruth Faden[5][6] of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. One of the primary motivating factors behind his decision to create ACHRE was a step taken by his newly appointed Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary, one of whose first actions on taking the helm of the United States Department of Energy was to announce a new openness policy for the department. The new policy led almost immediately to the release of over 1.6 million pages of classified records.

These records made clear that since the 1940s, the Atomic Energy Commission had been sponsoring tests on the effects of radiation on the human body. American citizens who had checked into hospitals for a variety of ailments were secretly injected, without their knowledge, with varying amounts of plutonium and other radioactive materials.

Ebb Cade was an unwilling participant in medical experiments that involved injection of 4.7 micrograms of plutonium on 10 April 1945 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.[7][8] This experiment was under the supervision of Harold Hodge.[9] Most patients thought it was "just another injection," but the secret studies left enough radioactive material in many of the patients' bodies to induce life-threatening conditions.

Such experiments were not limited to hospital patients, but included other populations such as those set out above, e.g., orphans fed irradiated milk, children injected with radioactive materials, prisoners in Washington and Oregon state prisons. Much of the experimentation was carried out in order to assess how the human body metabolizes radioactive materials, information that could be used by the Departments of Energy and Defense in Cold War defense and attack planning.

ACHRE's final report was also a factor in the Department of Energy establishing an Office of Human Radiation Experiments (OHRE) that assured publication of DOE's involvement, by way of its predecessor, the AEC, in Cold War radiation research and experimentation on human subjects. The final report issued by the ACHRE can be found at the Department of Energy's website.

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References

  1. ^ U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power. American Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Three Decades of Radiation Experiments on US. Citizens. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  2. ^ a b c The Plutonium Files: America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War, by Eileen Welsome, Dial Press, c1999, New York, N.Y., ISBN 0-385-31402-7
  3. ^ U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. Craft v. Vanderbilt University. Fed Suppl. 1998;18:786-98. PMID 15751149.
  4. ^ Roff, Sue Rabbitt. "Project Sunshine and the Slippery Slope" (PDF). Dundee University Medical School.
  5. ^ "Ruth R. Faden, PHD, MPH".
  6. ^ ACHRE homepage, archived
  7. ^ Moss, William, and Roger Eckhardt. (1995). "The human plutonium injection experiments." Los Alamos Science. 23: 177-233.
  8. ^ Openness, DOE. (June 1998). Human Radiation Experiments: ACHRE Report. Chapter 5: The Manhattan district Experiments; the first injection. Washington, DC. Superintendent of Documents US Government Printing Office.
  9. ^ AEC no. UR-38, 1948 Quarterly Technical Report

Human radiation experiments not well cited

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In the paragraph below listing examples of radiation testing on American citizens there is not a single citation. It's also written in a very casual and unspecific manner and i've edited out certain words already. Needs some work.


"The experiments included a wide array of studies, such as feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children or conscientious objectors, inserting radium rods into the noses of schoolchildren, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, injecting pregnant women and babies with radioactive chemicals, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, amongst other things." 128.40.96.138 (talk) 15:42, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the Covid-19 "vaccination" "experiment" from DARPA?

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https://sashalatypova.substack.com/archive?sort=new — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.72.116 (talk) 15:32, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sasha Latypova is known for peddling pseudoscience. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/01/scicheck-covid-19-vaccines-tested-in-clinical-trials-despite-strongbogus-social-media-claims-strong/ 24.101.237.66 (talk) 21:35, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unethical Covid and other mRNA VACCINES

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Why aren’t you mentioning the vaccine terrorism of the 21st century and the world intentional poisoning of humanity with a gene altering bioweapon? 2601:200:4303:4F0:11D7:4DF1:A757:216D (talk) 15:14, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2601:200:4303:4F0:11D7:4DF1:A757:216D politics 99.33.126.209 (talk) 18:01, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion Re: Operation Sea-Spray

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This article makes it sound as if the bioweapon experimentation was the direct causative agent in the deaths mentioned, whereas the article for Operation Sea-Spray itself says that a causative link was not definitively established and the illnesses and death were likely the result of nosocomial infection. I feel like the sources for both need to be compared and examined and both articles need to be brought into agreement for legitimacy's sake. 208.255.1.20 (talk) 22:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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