Fernald and Willowbrook School Experiments

This episode talks about the Quaker Oats/MIT experiments done on children to test how much radioactive iron and calcium the body can hold. The Willowbrook hepatitis school experiment is also discussed. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spoonful-sugar-helps-radioactive-oatmeal-go-down-180962424/ https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/achre/final/chap7_5.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/01/01/radioactive-oatmeal-suit-settled-for-185-million/93894a5a-5844-4544-aca2-ffe4e52030b3/ https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/instruction-idiots/ https://priceonomics.com/the-mit-science-club-for-disabled-children/ Willowbrook https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/medical_ethics_text/chapter_7_human_experimentation/case_study_willowbrook_experiments.htm https://bioethicsresearch.org/resources/case-studies/hepatitis-studies-at-the-willowbrook-state-school-for-children/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2020/06/12/willowbrook-scandal-hepatitis-experiments-hideous-truths-of-testing-vaccines-on-humans/?sh=684224d6279c