Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities
Radioactive Oatmeal | MIT’s Experiments on Institutionalized Children
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About this episode
In the mid-20th century, Americans were paying closer attention to nutrition. MIT researchers wanted to determine the nutritional value of oats. But their study required children to eat oatmeal containing radioactive tracers. They found those children inside a state institution. For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts