The Cincinnati Experiments
(1960 to 1972)
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Human Experiments
The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests, by Martha Stephens, Duke University Press, c2002, Durham, N.C., ISBN 0-8223-2811-9
Records revealed last January show that 61 African Americans were guinea pigs
along with 12 others in a 12 year military study at the University of Cincinnati
Medical Center designed to see how exposure to full- and partial- body radiation
10 times higher than normal would effect the body. After 60 days of exposure to
the radiation (250 rads in one session), 25 of the patients died.
The tests were conducted from 1960
to 1972 by Eugene L. Saenger, an eminent radiological health specialist. Saenger
knew something was wrong as he wrote a report to the Defense Department stating,
"one can identify eight cases in which there is a possibility of the therapy
contributing to mortality." Ironically, Saenger also serves as a key
governmental witness on radiation lawsuit cases brought against the Department
of Energy.
Dr. David S. Egilman has been
researching the Cincinnati experiments for over ten years and did not mince
words when he told us, "What they did was murder those black patients. And those
researchers, Gottschalk and Saenger, as dirty as Mingele." Egilman testified on
January 18 before the House of Representatives Energy and Power Subcommittee
regarding the experiments and further contends that the tests were conducted
with no informed consent and were not ethical at the time.
Radiation Scandal By Anthony and Denise
Ji-Ahnte Sibert