Talk:Unethical human experimentation in the United States

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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 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
 * enlisting doctors to administer radioactive iron to impoverished pregnant women
 * exposing U.S. soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation
 * irradiating the testicles of prisoners, which caused severe birth defects
 * exhuming bodies from graveyards to test them for radiation (without the consent of the families of the deceased)

On January 15, 1994, President Bill Clinton formed the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE), chaired by Ruth Faden 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. This experiment was under the supervision of Harold Hodge. 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.

Ongoing experiments
The article currently includes the sentence "Such tests have been performed throughout American history, but some of them are ongoing." Looking at the page history I found that the second half-sentence has been changed between the current version and "but most of them were performed during the 20th century" several times; sometimes it was even changed to "but most of them are ongoing". Since no citation is given and the article doesn't mention any ongoing experiments (if I didn't miss anything) I have added a "citation needed" tag.

C. Scheler (talk) 14:32, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

The scope of this article is too broad
The scope of this article is currently every instance of unethical human experimentation in the history of the United States which, to my understanding, violates WP:SYNTH. A much better scope would be restricting it to just unethical experimentation related to the American government MRN2electricboogaloo (talk) 05:08, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Human radiation experiments not well cited
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)

Adding the Covid-19 "vaccination" "experiment" from DARPA?
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/archive?sort=new — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.72.116 (talk) 15:32, 29 September 2023 (UTC)


 * 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)