50's & 60's secret Cold War Army experiments on St. Louisans (low income areas, natch)

[TalkingDog]

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/339573/3/I-Team-The-Armys-secret-cold-war-experiments-on-St-Louisans-

Lisa Martino-Taylor is a sociologist whose life's work has been to uncover details of the Army's ultra-secret military experiments carried out in St. Louis and other cities during the 1950s and 60s.

She will make her research public Tuesday, but she spoke first to the I-Team's Leisa Zigman.

The I-Team independently verified that the spraying of zinc cadmium sulfide did take place in St. Louis on thousands of unsuspecting citizens. What is unclear is whether the Army added a radioactive material to the compound as Martino-Taylor's research implies.

"The study was secretive for reason. They didn't have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I'll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles," said Martino-Taylor.

/snip

Want to see some outrage? Just hint that this was sprayed on the whites only golf courses and country clubs. Otherwise.... meh.

[Octafish]

1. If the commies win, the master will lose his property.

From the OP:

Martino-Taylor says the greatest concentration was centered on the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex, just northwest of downtown St. Louis in the Carr Square neighborhood. It was home to 10,000 low income people. An estimated 70 percent she says were children under the age of 12.

PS: Thank you for the heads-up TalkingDog. Most people have no clue.

[TalkingDog]

4. Liberal Outrage Fatigue

Right now I think we're too busy trying to banish the Tea-idjits and stay financially afloat.

But a little more concern over government malfeasance would be nice.

[Octafish]

2. I remember when DUers gave a damn about the government preying on the people.

Know your BFEE: American Children Used in Radiation Experiments

Jeepers. How things have changed. I wonder why that is?

[madokie]

3. You've been working to inform us on the BFEE for a long time

and I appreciate that. Before DU and of course your writing I knew nothing of the BFEE. There is no doubt in my mind that poppy was in on the assassination of President Kennedy. I'm sure Dr King also. If I really wanted to rack my two addled brain cells I could come up with many others, like Wellstone for instance, or Michael Connell who went down in his plane under suspicious circumstances before testifying on alleged election fraud in the 2004 election in Ohio against the bush/cheney criminal crew. Yeah the list is long, a lot longer than I can come up with right now.
I really don't want to bruise my brain any further this early in the day.
Peace to you
and a great big Thank You.

[lonestarnot]

7. And for that, I love the Octafish!

Octafish!

[lunatica]

5. This country does have a dark underside

From the small pox infested blankets given to American Indians to slavery and to the many experiments done one innocent people like the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments and to the internment of the Japanese Americans during WWII, we have plenty to be ashamed of as a Nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

Unfortunately most Americans would rather believe we're as pure as the driven snow, so none of this gets addressed the way it should be. Until we address and recognize this harsh dark side of ourselves as a Nation we will continue to be a country who's mentality is that of adolescents rather than grownups.

edited to add more and to add the link

[HiPointDem]

6. kr

[Overseas]

8. Sad K&R. I had no idea. Cruel tests like this and still no national health insurance.

[Mnemosyne]

9. K&R