If I told you that doctors had injected live cancer cells into elderly Jewish patients, including Holocaust survivors, without their consent for experimental purposes, you would be appalled. That was certainly the public’s reaction when the scandal at Brooklyn’s Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital was uncovered in 1964. But digging deeper into the facts reveals that the experiment was far more benign than it sounds. Quite a few medical “scandals” are like that.
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