In(di)go said:

i heard of that before... and it's just FUBAR... unbelievable

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During the initial years after the discovery of plutonium, when its biological and physical properties were very poorly understood, a series of human radiation experiments were performed by the U.S. government and by private organizations acting on its behalf. From the time of April 1945 to July 1947, 18 men, women, and children were deliberately injected with solutions containing various concentrations of plutonium by doctors working with the Manhattan Project. Though the injections were only to occur in what were percieved by the doctors as terminally ill patients at the hospital, in at least one instance this was not the case and the injections, in all cases, were conducted without any kind of informed consent from the subjects of the experiment. The episode is considered today, to be a gross violation of human rights and of the Hippocratic Oath, and is widely regarded as one of the darkest chapters in 20th-century American medical history. [1]

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thegatewaydrug said:

they only do it for science though. they arent thinking about how much torture they r putting these people through. they just thinking "hmm lets see how people react to this and this and this". it is pretty fucked up, but without those experiments they would never know how the human body reacts. it is pretty sad though

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