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An institution for boys with disabilities permits radiation experiments to see the impact on human bodies.

Date: 1953

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The Fernald School in Massachusetts, under the leadership of Clemens Benda, the school's clinical director, taints the students' food with radioactive substances to see the effects on their bodies. Parents are asked for "permission," but are not given adequate information to constitute informed consent.