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British government put radioactive salt on chapati that they fed to Punjabi mothers in Oxfordshire in the 1970s
So I went down a whole rabbit hole earlier today looking into this, and uhh, the story about the Punjabi women is only the tip of the iceberg.
As a lot of people have pointed out in the comments, it seems like there's no information about this story anywhere. When I tried using a search engine with items like 'Punjabi,' 'Radioactive salt,' 'Medical experiments,' etc. the only article I could find was from India Today. There was no apparent trace either of the Channel 4 documentary the story seems to be based on, True Stories: Deadly Experiments (1995).
However, while searching for the documentary, I stumbled across a journal article, which at least confirmed to me that the reporting must most have been thought to have some merit.
Project Sunshine and the Slippery Slope: The Ethics of Tissue Sampling for Strontium-90 (published in Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2002)
The article makes no direct mention of an experiment involving Punjabi women, but it details how the Channel 4 documentary reports on other radiation experiment conducted in the UK.
One of the experiment it reports on involved 91 pregnant women who, without their informed consent, were repeatedly injected with radioactive iodine.
And this demonstrably did happen. The results of some these experiments were published in peer-reviewed journals.
Some of the ones cites in the 2001 article:
- Effects of pre-eclampsia on the changes in iodine
metabolism during pregnancy (1968) - Structural and functional development of the
human foetal thyroid (1966) - Radioactive iodide uptake of normal newborn infants (1954)
- Radioactive-iodine conceentration in thyroid glands of newborn infants (1960)
- Iron metabolism in human pregnancy as studied with the radioactive isotope (1951)
- Long-term effects of radioactive iron administered during
human pregnancy (1969)
Trying to find more information on how these reports were received, I stumbled across an article from the The Herald, which, for one, shows that the Channel 4 documentary seemed to have caused some stir when it first aired:
Government quizzed. Row over tests on pregnant women (The Herald, 1995)
THE Government has been asked to explain why there was no follow-up investigation on pregnant women who were repeatedly injected with radioactive iodine more than 30 years ago.
Leader of the House, Mr Tony Newton, was asked for a statement last night by SNP MP Margaret Ewing. Her party leader, Mr Alex Salmond, said he was ''very disturbed'' by the ethical questions raised by a television documentary last night which featured one of his constituents.
''This is a matter of huge public concern,'' he said.
The constituent, Mrs Kathleen Morrison, 62, her sister, and three friends were among 91 pregnant women who had radioactive iodine injected into their thyroids.
[. . .] She suffered throat cancer seven years ago and, although she is not claiming it was as a result of the research, she is concerned about the effects of the work carried out at the Obstetric Medicine Research Unit, then headed by obstetrician Sir Dugald Baird.
The same medical unit that performed these injections, also carried out experiments on women who were about to have abortions.
A spokesperson for the UK's Medical Research Council, the funder of these studies, only denies that they were carried out in secret, not that they actually happened.
The experiment is understood to have been carried out as part of his PhD thesis by Dr Aboul Khair, a Research Fellow in Therapeutics and Pharmacology.
A subsequent experiment carried out in the same unit involving a further 37 women, who were about to have abortions, revealed that unborn children were more susceptible to radioactive iodine than had previously been realised. However, it was known at that stage the foetus is at risk from even low level radiation.
Fawcett then goes on to claim it was a completely safe experiment.
The previous article, however, claims that findings from the area these studies were conducted in revealed "consistently elevated' incidence of thyroid cancer," but that "no follow-up study was undertaken following the report."
And, if you're stills somehow doubting the claims from the documentary, and you think the UK wouldn't perform radiation experiments on patients without their medical consent, then keep reading, because we haven't even gotten to the part yet about body parts being secretly removed from stillborn babies and shipped off to the US for medical experiments.
The Channel 4 documentary made numerous revelations about experiments which were carried out until the 1970s and one between 1955 and 1970 in which hospital pathologists removed body parts from 6000 corpses, without the knowledge of their families, and sent them to Harwell to be analysed for fallout levels
These studies, which essentially relied on graverobbing, were carried out on the behest of Project Sunshine, a research program that, among other things, studied the effect of nuclear radiation on the human body.
World Wakes Up to Horrific Scientific History (ABCNEWS, 2001)
More than 1,500 cadavers — many of them babies — were gathered from half a dozen countries from Europe to Australia in the 1950s for the studies on the effects of radiation conducted by the now defunct Atomic Energy Commission, according to U.S. government documents.
Project Sunshine, which was conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, attempted to study the absorption of strontium-90 in human tissue, primarily bone.
In June 1995, a presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, set up by former President Clinton released classified documents from the Atomic Energy Commission, which showed that scientists working on Project Sunshine were aware of the dubious ethical and legal grounds on which their research was being conducted.
In a transcript of a secret meeting on Jan. 18, 1955, Dr. Willard Libby, a University of Chicago researcher, who went on to win the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, acknowledged that the difficulty in getting human samples was resulting in "great gaps" in the project's findings.
"I don't know how to get them," Libby is quoted as saying. "But I do say that it is a matter of prime importance to get them and particularly in the young age group. So, human samples are of prime importance and if anybody knows how to do a good job of body snatching, they will really be serving their country."
Libby, the champion of body snatching, was also involved in the Manhattan Project.
Further on, the ABCNEWS article includes a story from Deadly Experiments about a mother whose stillborn baby unknowingly became a part of Project Sunshine's infant studies:
In a 1995 British documentary, Deadly Experiments, Jean Prichard, a British mother of a stillborn baby whose legs were removed by British hospital doctors in 1957, said she was forbidden to dress her daughter for her funeral to prevent her from finding out what had happened.
"I asked if I could put her christening robe on her, but I wasn't allowed to, and that upset me terribly because she wasn't christened," she said. "No one asked me about doing things like that, taking bits and pieces from her."
Absolutely ghoulish.
Lastly, I think it should be noted that, although there's no confirmed link between them, Project Sunshine was operating around the same time that these other UK-based radiation experiments were being performed.
Also, if these were thought to be completely harmless experiments, why did the researchers not inform the patients? Why did they seek out minority women and other marginalized groups for their experiments? Even if it turns out that the level of radiation they received were completely safe, the patients were still treated like guinea pigs.
The experiment on the Punjabi women was messed up due to the lack of consent or even communication... But even the India Today source says the purpose of the experiment was to specifically investigate the possiblity of nutritional needs in Asian women so their medical outcomes could be improved, so obviously the experiment needed to be on Asian women (British definition of Asian, Middle Eastern or Desi Indian in American English). Like, there is a racial angle here, but it looks like Tumblr is exaggerating the racial angle while they also (reasonably) complain about medicine being too White and lack of studies on other races. Fixing that requires doing studies on non Whites
What if I kill you to test your ability to withstand bodily harm, bitch
staff changing dashboard again i think, all pfps are removed unless its an original post, which then it appears INSIDE the post :|
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If ppl could try to spread this around so others see it, thatd be appreciated
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