Cincinnati Radiation Experiments
ecthompsonmd
October 11, 2007
The New York Times today reported the death of Dr. Eugene Saenger of Cincinnati. He was 90. Dr. Saenger was a radiologist and expert on nuclear medicine who did Cold War era radiation experiments on poor folks and black folks in Cincinnati between 1960 and 1971. While a University of Cincinnati English Professor named Martha Stephens made an effort to publicize this issue in the early 1970’s, the experiments gained the most attention in Cincinnati in the 1990’s. This was when other government Cold War experiments elsewhere in the country came under a renewed scrutiny. In 2002, Professor Stephens published a
