9. The Vanderbilt Radioactive Iron Experiment
In 1945, Vanderbilt University claimed it was running a nutrition study for pregnant women. Claiming their pills would help with anemia, they gave 829 women tablets laced with radioactive iron.
Researchers wanted to see just how much iron could be absorbed by a pregnant woman. The pills exposed the women to radiation 30 times higher than normal levels. And that wasn’t all; a secondary objective was to observe the long term effects of radiation on the children born.
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A follow-up study found that three of the children had died of cancer-related illnesses. Vanderbilt was sued by the mothers of the dead children, and had to pay out $ 10.3 million in 1998.
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