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Sanjib Mishra, associate professor of Physics,says one of his favorite one-liners came formscientist Ernest Rutherford, famous for his'gold-foil' experiment.
"When he tried it and it didn't work, do youknow what he said?" Mishra asks. "He said, 'Thegold has foiled my experiment!"
Instead, the report argues that the experiments did not live up to the principles of the 1947 Nuremberg Code, which calls for the voluntary consent of any human subject of an experiment.
In fact, students in one experiment were told they would be joining a science club if they participated in an experiment.
MIT professors were also involved inexperiments investigated by the task force. Thedraft report details correspondence during whichan MIT researcher actively spoke of recruitingchildren for an experiment for which he hadoriginally planned to use rats