The experiment on pregnant mothers in Tennessee is just awful. One article cited [1] reads: > During the 1940s, 800 pregnant women, the poor patrons of a pre-n

The experiment on pregnant mothers in Tennessee is just awful. One article cited [1] reads: > During the 1940s, 800 pregnant women, the poor patrons of a pre-natal clinic at Vanderbilt University, were given a "cocktail" including a tracer dose of radioactive iron. The object of the experiment was to determine the iron requirements of pregnant women. Ongoing lawsuits point to a higher-than-usual incidence of malignancies in the children of the women subjected. [1]: http://news.psu.edu/story/141518/1996/03/01/research/subjected-science http://news.psu.edu/story/141518/1996/03/01/research/subject...