Quaker Oats and the Chilling Truth Behind Its Radioactive Oatmeal Experiments - Commonplace Fun Facts

The Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts was involved in a dark chapter of American medical research in the 1950s and 60s. Unknowingly, children became part of a covert Quaker Oats and MIT-funded study, ingesting radioactive oatmeal and milk intended to track nutrient absorption. This une..