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The first list seems sensational -- and unsourced. Added citation tags. I'll leave it tagged for now. Can someone cite or verify the claims in the list? Abstract 13:23, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, there are the FOIA documents, and there's this: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2914646 There's no end of high quality material about human radiation experiments... Unfortunately it's a topic that attracts the wrong kind of people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 (talk) 17:00, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
This article seems based around a somewhat sensationalistic and journalistic account of the historical accounts. It needs more insight from more sober, scholarly, and straightforward accounts. I'll try to incorporate some of the material from Barton C. Hacker, Elements of controversy: the Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). At the moment the page is entirely slanted towards the more sensationalistic approach, and calling some of these things "experiments" is a little off (Castle Bravo was not a "fallout test" under any sober interpretation even if it was a complete and reckless bungle). --Fastfission 17:33, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I feel a lot more citations are required. The 2nd paragraph under Fallout Research needs to be rewritten as I feel it is written as a personal account. There are no citations in Project Sunshine either. (unknown user 27/4/2006)
"829 pregnant mothers received what they were told were vitamin drinks that would improve the health of their babies, but were, in fact, mixtures containing radioactive iron, to determine how fast the radio iodine crossed into the placenta"
Err, are we talking about iron or is it iodine? The sentence above is a contraction of the quotes of two different speakers and it does not make much sense in its current form. Alef0 20:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't really think Mike Adams' Naturalnews.com site really qualifies as an adequate, unbiased academic or historical source per Wikipedia:NPOV and Source Guidelines, as used in this article, and quoted in the following:
c Veracity, Dani (March 6, 2006). "Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965)" (in English). NaturalNews.com. www.naturalnews.com/019189.html. [unreliable fringe source?] Retrieved 2009-03-12.
NaturalNews.com is a well known pseudo-science and "alternative medicine" blog known to promote unproven and highly questionable alternative health claims, many based on the opinion of Adams himself. I believe that other academic or peer-reviewed historical sources should be used to demonstrate these studies, that are more reliable..
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Is there a better source for claims that the UK tested radioactive salts on Punjabi women in 1969? The source for that is supposedly a film/documentary, but I'm unable to verify the producer's source 86.16.6.253 (talk) 22:36, 20 August 2023 (UTC)