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Puts on tin foil hat... They probably did this intentionally to see what would happen. I wouldn't be surprised if they secretly monitored doctors reports, in t

• Shivetya 9y ago
  No tinfoil hat needed if you consider the Tuskegee syphilis experiment which started in the thirties and continued after it was well known in the late 40s that penicillin treated it. it seems that a general above reproach type attitude existed among certain government based/funded research groups then
  • dragonwriter 9y ago
    Or, even later than Tuskegee, biowarfare tests involving the general population, starting with the San Francisco test in 1950: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2015/06/28/san-fran-serratia/#.WThx3yNlBnE http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2015/06/28/san...
  • nylonstrung 9y ago
    The AEC and DoD did a ton of human radiation experiments in the vein of that without any informed consent. For one they straight up irradiated prisoners and gave their children birth defects. One time a guy got in a car accident and went to the hospital and they injected him with plutonium to see what would happen. In another incident they gave mentally disabled children radioactive materials in their breakfast and told them they were vitamins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_radiation_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_radiation_experiments Pretty sure most of this was post Nuremburg as well. We talk about how fucked up Mengele was and a lot of this is on the same level. No one was ever brought to justice for this stuff as far as I know
• dingo_bat 9y ago
  To be honest, if I was in a position to make that decision, I'd be highly tempted to use the bombs just to see what would happen.