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The parallels are eerie (to an Oliver Stone fan, at least). Might the persistent snow this winter actually be an experiment to test human tolerance for coldness and wetness? And House over-crowding, so long dismissed as inevitable, might now be unmasked as a cruel sociology experiment to gauge how...
This week's latest revelation--that Harvard doctors used children as young as one-year-old in a Wrentham State School experiment to determine the human thresh-old for nuclear fallout--is particularly gutwrenching.
The 1962 experiment at the Wrentham State School and the 1966 license for a two-year study are being scrutinized by the state's Department of Mental Retardation's task force, which was created to look into experiments on retarded children in the Cold War era.
Harvard, which has created a similar panel of its experts, will also look into the Wrentham experiment, according to Walter H. Abelmann, the committee chair. And if University scientists were involved the 1966 license is likely to draw the panel's attention.
The children involved sustained only a "very small" chance of experiencing long-term health problems as a result of the experiment, Wilson said.