Reply #52: No. I had no idea. [View All]

[Octafish]

It's remarkable, looking back with what we now know. People then had little or no idea of the health danger from radiation.



Aagh!

Source: http://www.mtn.org/quack/devices/shoexray.htm

OTOH: The BFEE (War Party) has no excuse for using America's children as guinea pigs.

Eugenics - through World War II

Eugenics is a common link between perpetrators who have created a climate of surveillance and harassment -- visible in the racist and anti-activist agenda of J. Edgar Hoover who shaped the FBI; in the self-serving industrialist eugenics of powerful industrialists; in the influence of eugenic attitudes towards the "socially unfit" in shaping British foreign policy; and in the possibility that US Government importation of Nazi scientists after World War II (See Operation Paperclip) contributed to a climate of harassment of and experimentation on minorities, artists of all kinds, activists, leaders, spiritual leaders, and veterans.

Eric Adler "Missourian played key role in old-time eugenics movement" The Kansas City Star, April 27, 2002 --

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/3147551.htm1

..."It was Laughlin, too, who in 1924 would be instrumental in altering the ethnic make-up of the United States. As Congress' chosen 'expert eugenics agent,' he offered 'scientific' testimony as to why the United States should pass the Immigration Restriction Act..Used in part to deny access to thousands of European Jews hoping to escape Nazi Germany, the law endured until the 1960s..."

The World War II continuation of immigration policies that turned away thousands of Jewish people who later died in the Holocaust can also be partially laid at the feet of Vannever Bush, who although he fired Laughlin as head of Cold Spring Harbor because his scientific methods weren't good, encouraged him to testify in 1939 to the Senate Immigration Committee, writing him, according to Edwin Black, "'One has to express opnions when he appears in this sort of inquiry, and I believe that yours will be found to be a conservative and well-founded estimate of the situation facing the committee.' Bush added that he had personally reviewed Laughlin's prior testimony and felt it was 'certainly well handled and valuable.'" (War Against the Weak 393-94)

SOURCE (w/loads o' links):

Judy Malloy: Revelations of Secret Surveillance: Resources and Advocacy

http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/gunterandgwen/resources.html#refs14