Re: MIT, Quaker Oats Settle Radiation Lawsuit

[LIPTONW@detroitedison.com]

You wrote, regarding the recent settlement for using students at the Fernald 
School as radiation experiment subjects: 
 
Is anyone other than me disturbed by the fact that MIT is rolling over on this 
issue rather than trying to show that such minor doses probably had no 
detremental effects at all. 
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Subject: MIT, Quaker Oats Settle Radiation Lawsuit 
From:    "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl%ix.netcom.com@inet.rfets.gov> at inet 
Date:    1/2/98  7:00 PM 
 
This is of general interest, and, might raise questions. Therefore, I  
am providing the entire article as found on the wire services. It was  
a subject I had not been awarre of, and, this might be new to others  
as well. 
 
Happy New Year to all Radsafers! 
 
One fact that you may not be aware of is that the Fernald School is more a 
mental hospital than a school.  It is likely that the children involved were 
severely retarded.   
 
Considering this situation, I don't think that MIT "rolled over".  I'm very 
disturbed when people sho are not able to assert their rights are taken 
advantage of, regardless of the dose.  It seems that the expimenters 
deliberately chose a population which would "roll over," and, even then, did 
not obtain truly informed consent.   
 
The opinions expressed are strictly mine. 
It's not about dose, it's about trust. 
 
Bill Lipton 
liptonw@detroitedison.com