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Did you know between 1945-1947? Vanderbilt University and US Public Health Services funded and performed a “Nutrition Study” on 820 pregnant women. They gave these women a cocktail and said it was vitamins. Guess what it was? Radioactive iron isotopes.

The university and public health wanted to study how fast the radiation would absorb into the placenta. These women didn’t know they were being experimented on, and you can only imagine the horrific outcome.

https://ahrp.org/1945-1947-vanderbilt-university-nutrition-study-exposed-820-pregnant-women-to-tracer-doses-of-radioactive-iron/

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/90/1/1/145008