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Re: settlement - ludicrous!



I think this issue is more about the lack of ethics on behalf of the U.S. government.  Put yourself in the place of the individual who doesn't understand radioactive materials and then is exposed to radiation without their consent.

My opinion only, not the Bureaus.

Diana Williams
DWILLIAM@gw.odh.state.oh.us

>>> "Elizabeth M. Brackett" <brackett@bright.net> 05/07/99 08:20AM >>>
I don't agree with the settlement, but I wanted to point out that it says
"all BUT one has died," not ONLY one has died.

At 05:52 PM 5/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>What is wrong with our judicial system? This case, and the 
>aftermath is a mockery. Granted, there is an issue of consent, but 
>where is the damage, and if one considers non-information as 
>damage, what about proportionality? From the article regarding the 
>settlement:
>
>Article: 
>All but one of the plaintiffs has died. The defendants never 
>conceded that the experiments contributed to the deaths of the 
>patients, who already had advanced cases of cancer when they 
>underwent experimentation.  
>
>Observation:
>These individuals all had advanced cases of cancer. Yet only one 
>has died, a woman at the ripe old age of 82.
>

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