Vanderbilt Secretly Gave Radioactive Drinks to 800 Pregnant Women in 1945 (Connecting the Dots: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Quaker Oats Company, PepsiCo, Vanderbilt University, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, The FDA, The CDC, COVID & The Carnegie/Soros Network)
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In 1945, hundreds of pregnant women walked into a hospital expecting routine prenatal care. What they didn’t know was that some of them were being given radioactive iron as part of a controversial medical experiment that would remain buried for decades. In this video, we uncover the shocking story of the Vanderbilt Radioactive Pregnancy Study — a little-known case involving more than 800 women, hidden records, unanswered questions, and families who spent nearly half a century without knowing the truth.
MIT
and Quaker Oats Fed Radioactive Cereals to Children in the 1940s
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History Facts
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Intro
After
World War II, governments around the world were keen to explore the long-term
repercussion of their new toys: nuclear weapons. Human testing and
experimentation would continue all across the world, more often than not, on a
variety of unconsenting and ignorant subjects.
In the
1940s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Quaker
Oats conducted a series of experiments
involving the consumption of radioactive cereals by children. In particular,
the study sought to learn more about the effects of internal radiation
exposure, and to develop methods for treating radiation sickness as opposed to
external radiation exposure, which had been studied for many years.
People
were either compelled to consume radioactive substances or were made subject to
it in these studies, which continued throughout the 1950s. The experiments were
conducted without the knowledge or consent of the children or their parents, and the results of the
studies remain shrouded in controversy today.
Background to Eugenics Movement
The concept of eugenics began around 400 BC with the idea of ‘selective breeding’ as a way to improve and maintain
specific group populations. By the 19th century, a fringe eugenic theory began
to take hold in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and
most European countries.
Eugenicists attempted to alter the human gene
pool by excluding groups considered to be inferior and using new technologies
such as genetic screening and CRISPR. Individuals with physical or
mental disabilities, those who were considered ‘deviants’ and even those from
minority groups were deemed “unfit to reproduce” and subsequently
underwent forced sterilization.
The eugenics movement became associated with
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust during the Nuremberg trials of 1945 and 1946.
Many of the defendants claimed there was little difference between the Nazi
eugenics programs and the U.S. eugenics programs.
In that regard, the Nazis were right as
evidenced by Operation Paperclip. Operation
Paperclip was a United Stated intelligence program in which more than
1,600 German scientists, engineers, psychiatrists, doctors and basically,
anybody who was of importance was shipped to the US to continue their work
under the wing of the US government.
The
Fernald School
The Fernald State Center was built in
1848 and was conceived as a sanatorium for “feeble-minded” boys. It was originally called Experimental
School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children. It later moved to
Waltham, Massachusetts, where eventually expanded to comprise 72 buildings on
196 acres of land. At its peak, Fernald School was able to house some 2,500
boys (and girls) with developmental disabilities
The School was renamed as Walter E.
Fernald in 1925, after his third superintendent, Walter E. Fernald
(1859–1924). Fernald was an advocate of eugenics. And under his leadership, the
school was viewed as a model educational facility in the field of mental retardation.
The Science Club
The Fernald School was the location of
the 1946-53 Harvard-MIT Joint Experiment, which exposed male youths
to tracer doses of a radioactive isotope.
A lot of the children were Wards of
the State, meaning they had no family themselves and the State was
responsible for their well-being. A few of them had families, but the
commonality among them was that the vast majority were mentally handicapped or
suffered from a variety of mental illnesses that back then were not well
understood.
The children were allegedly lured into
attending the science club. They were offered extra meals at a time of poverty,
as well as parties and trips to Boston Red Sox baseball games.
Unbeknownst to them, more than 200 children in Fernald School and several other
public schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts, became unwilling participants in a
research study led by Harvard-MIT and Quaker Oats.
The children were involuntarily fed grains of
oatmeal and milk spiked with radioactive iron and calcium. In another experiment, scientists injected
radioactive calcium into the boys directly in an
effort to understand what happens to calcium in the bloodstream.
The cereals were designed to contain various
levels of radioactive substances, including uranium, thorium, cobalt, and
strontium. The children were given cereals and instructed to eat them as part
of their regular diet. The researchers then monitored the children’s bodies for
signs of radiation sickness.
The experiment was conducted over a period of
several years, but it is unclear exactly how many children were involved in it
given that a lot of the information is still classified to this day. Children
as young as two might have been exposed to the experiments.
The children were not informed that they were
consuming radioactive substances, and the researchers did not obtain informed
consent from the children or their families before conducting the experiment.
MIT never bothered to follow up with the
children from Fernald, but MIT made sure that Quaker Oats was very well
informed about the findings, and Quaker Oats started using a claim about high
iron levels in its advertising for Quaker Oats.
The
1960’s Experiments
A similar experiment was conducted in 1961 and throughout the
1960s.
Seventy children at the Wrentham
State School, a facility for mentally disabled children in Massachusetts,
were given small doses of radioactive iodine by a team of researchers from Harvard
Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston
University School of Medicine.
With funding from the Division of
Radiologic Health of the U.S. Public Health Service, the scientists
conducting this experiment used Wrentham students to test a proposed
countermeasure to nuclear fallout. Specifically, the study was meant to
determine the amount of nonradioactive iodine that would effectively block the
uptake of radioactive iodine that would be released in a nuclear explosion.
Consent
Unearthed
letters of consent sent to the parents were found during the 1994 Inquiry (see
Inquiry below).
The
letters refers to a project in which children at the school will receive a
special diet “rich” in various cereals, iron, and vitamins and for which “it
will be necessary to make some blood tests at stated intervals, similar to
those to which our patients are already accustomed, and which will cause no
discomfort or change in their physical condition other than possibly
improvement.”
Department
of Energy: Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Dear Parent:
In
previous years we have done some examinations in connection with the
nutritional department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the
purposes of helping to improve the nutrition of our children and to help them
in general more efficiently than before.
For the
checking up of the children, we occasionally need to take some blood samples,
which are then analyzed. The blood samples are taken after one test meal which
consists of a special breakfast meal containing a certain amount of calcium. We
have asked for volunteers to give a sample of blood once a month for three
months, and your son has agreed to volunteer because the boys who belong to the
Science Club have many additional privileges. They get a quart of milk daily
during that time, and are taken to a baseball game, to the beach and to some
outside dinners and they enjoy it greatly.
I hope
that you have no objection that your son is voluntarily participating in this
study. The first study will start on Monday, June 8th, and if you have not
expressed any objections we will assume that your son may participate.
Sincerely
yours,
Clemens
E. Benda, M.D.
[Fernald]
Clinical Director
Approved:_____________________
Malcom
J. Farrell, M.D.
[Fernald] Superintendent
The
Inquiry
Originally,
eight to ten victims filed the lawsuit and created newspaper ads requesting
possible participants towards the lawsuit to come forward. Approximately 20 more people joined
the lawsuit with the state notifying another 100 people who were allegedly
involved in the studies.
In a 1994 Senate Hearing (Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments),
it was revealed that scientists at MIT had been giving boys – men today –
radioactive in the oatmeal as part of nutrition studies conducted for Quaker
Oats. Quaker Oats also gave a small study grant to the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
MIT
produced radioactive isotopes and had Fernand’s kids eat Quaker Oats with milk
and with a radioactive tracer, so that they could detect whether phytate
chemicals in oats were interfering with calcium absorption. However, Quaker
Oats continued to dispute that it had a significant impact on the Fernald
tests.
The
defendants claimed that only 74 boys from Fernald School were exposed to a
small amount of radiation, between 170 and 330 millirems of radiation, with an
average of 230, about equivalent to receiving 30 consecutive chest X-rays.
According
to the lawsuit, several people got subjected to even more radioactivity than
was permitted by regulatory restrictions. The fact that there was radioactivity
“in the oatmeal” is not mentioned in the consent form which was distributed.
Reports
from the task committee concluded that the students didn’t experience any
severe health problems in 1994. However, the Senate Hearing concluded that
their civil rights had been infringed. When information regarding the Fernald
experiments was first reported in 1994, MIT President Charles Vest issued an
apology.
In
1995, President Clinton apologized to the 30 former Fernald students because
the Atomic Energy Commission had indirectly sponsored experiments of its own
through contracts with MIT’s Centre for Radioactivity.
In
1998, the filing and resolution of this lawsuit took place. MIT and Quaker Oats
agreed to pay $1.85 million to former residents of the
Fernald School for Higher Learning in Waltham, Mass., who were fed
radiation-spiked breakfast cereals during nutrition experiments during the
1940s and 1950s.
The
Controversy
The MIT
experiments on children have sparked a great deal of controversy over the
years. Critics of the study argue that the researchers should have obtained
informed consent from the children and their families before conducting the
experiment. They also argue that the researchers should have provided the
children with information about the potential risks associated with consuming
the radioactive cereals.
The MIT
experiments involving the consumption of radioactive cereals by children have
sparked a great deal of controversy over the years. Although the study
was conducted with the intention of understanding the effects of radiation on
the human body, the researchers failed to obtain informed consent from the
children or their families before conducting the experiment.
The
researchers have also been criticized for their lack of transparency. The
results of the study were not released until decades after the experiments were
conducted, and some of the documents related to the study remain classified to
this day.
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supporter for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Center for American
Progress.
George Soros was the Chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American
Progress
and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was
a funder for the Center for American Progress.
PepsiCo, Inc. was
a funder for the Center for American Progress.
PepsiCo bought Quaker
Oats for $14 billion.
William D.
Smithburg was the president of the Quaker Oats Company and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Resources:
Past Research
Brown
University Declines to Sign Trump Admin’s Compact for Preferred Federal Funding
(Past Research on Vanderbilt University, Brown University, MIT, Columbia
University, Letitia James, The Committee for Economic Development & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Vanderbilt
University & MIT)
Sunday,
October 19, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/10/brown-university-declines-to-sign-trump.html
Trump
Admin Asks 9 Colleges to Agree to New Rules for Preferential Funding
(Connecting the Dots: Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, Brown
University, The University of Virginia, The University of Southern California,
The University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The
Texas A&M University, Higher Education, Harvard University, Columbia
University & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past
Research on MIT & Harvard, Vanderbilt University)
Friday,
October 3, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/10/trump-admin-asks-9-colleges-to-agree-to.html
Anti-Semitism
Comes to Vanderbilt University (Past Research on Vanderbilt
University & the Wheelchair Foundation)
Wednesday,
March 18, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/anti-semitism-comes-to-vanderbilt.html
Top
U.S. medical school says INFANTS can be 'queer,' 'asexual' (Connecting the
Dots: Harvard Medical School, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, FDA & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Harvard
Medical School)
Saturday,
January 14, 2023
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/top-us-medical-school-says-infants-can.html
CATCH
- Child and Adolescent Transgender Center for Health (Connecting the Dots:
Transgender Surgery On Children, Boston Medical Center, Boston Children’s
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, NIH, FDA, Pfizer, Johnson
& Johnson, Covid Vaccine Manufacturers, Brookings Institution & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Harvard
Medical School & Boston Medical Center)
Thursday,
February 9, 2023
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/02/catch-child-and-adolescent-transgender.html
Commercial
Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research on William D. Smithburg, the Quaker Oats Company & the Commercial
Club of Chicago)
Tuesday,
December 17, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-of-chicago-members.html
Sen.
Warren Presses Amazon on Algorithmic Pricing for Schools (Connecting the Dots:
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Ganesh Sitaraman, The Center for American Progress,
Amazon, HUD, The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, The Urban Institute, The U.S.
Department of Education & The Carnegie/Soros Network) (Past Research on the Carnegie Corporation New York)
Thursday,
March 12, 2026
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2026/03/sen-warren-presses-amazon-on.html
Musk
on Trump Attack: Head of Secret Service Should Resign (Connecting the Dots: The
head of the Secret Service is Kimberly Cheatle, PepsiCo, Alejandro Mayorkas,
O'Melveny & Myers LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle &
PepsiCo)
Sunday,
July 14, 2024
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/musk-on-trump-attack-head-of-secret.html
The
New Ad Campaign: Why Pepsi Loves the President (Connecting the Dots: The Barack
Obama administration, The Center for American Progress & The Carnegie/Soros
Network) (Past Research on PepsiCo & the Center
for American Progress)
Wednesday,
June 17, 2026
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-new-ad-campaign-why-pepsi-loves.html
Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (Past Research on Cameron Kerry)
Thursday,
July 21, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html
Suspect
in Brown University, MIT Professor Shootings Found Dead: Officials (Connecting
the Dots: Brown University, Christina Paxson, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) & Soros Funding, All
Networking) (Past Research on the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) & the Committee on Economic Development)
Saturday,
December 20, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/12/suspect-in-brown-university-mit.html
Ex-Soviet
Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dead at 91 (Connecting the Dots: Mikhail Gorbachev,
Communist Party, Green Cross International, Pre-Oscar Party, Soros Funded Think
Tanks ALL Networking) (Past Research on Mikhail
Gorbachev)
Tuesday,
August 30, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/ex-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-dead.html
FDA
Fails to Protect Americans from Dangerous Drugs and Unsafe Foods (Past Research on the FDA)
Sunday,
May 10, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/05/fda-fails-to-protect-americans-from.html
CDC
Turmoil Sparks Vance Attack on Democrats (Connecting the Dots: The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CBS News, Michael Bloomberg, Carter
Center, Chuck Schumer, Al Sharpton, The Black Panthers & Soros Funding, All
Networking) (Past Research on the CDC)
Sunday,
October 12, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/10/cdc-turmoil-sparks-vance-attack-on.html
IG
Farben / Bayer / Pfizer / Israel (Past Research on
Pfizer)
Sunday,
September 19, 2021
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/09/ig-farben-bayer-pfizer-israel.html
Johnson's
Baby Powder and Ovarian Cancer (Past Research on Johnson
& Johnson)
Sunday,
April 10, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/johnsons-baby-powder-and-ovarian-cancer.html
