Deadly Experiments
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| creative_director = Joe Bullman
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| company = Twenty Twenty Productions
| channel = Channel 4
| first_aired = {{Start date|df=yes|1995|07|06}}
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Deadly Experiments was a documentary aired on Channel 4 in 1995 as part of their True Stories series. It was produced by Twenty Twenty Television and featured several US and UK based research projects conducted in the 1950s and 60s which involved radioactive administration to humans.
- {{cite web |title=Radiation in MRC supported research in the 1950s and 1960s. Report of a committee inquiry |url=https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:31046394 |website=International Nuclear Information System |publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency |access-date=26 August 2023 |date=1998}}
- {{cite web |title=Radiation in MRC supported research in the 1950s and 1960s. Report of a committee inquiry |url=https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/biblio/20099966 |website=Office of Scientific and Technical Information |publisher=U.S. Department of Energy |access-date=12 February 2025 |language=English |date=1 July 1998 }}
- {{cite web |title=Radiation in MRC supported research in the 1950s and 1960s |url=https://www.ukri.org/publications/radiation-in-mrc-supported-research-in-the-1950s-and-1960s/ |website=UK Research and Innovation |date=22 August 2023}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Kmietowicz |first1=Zosia |title=MRC cleared of unethical research practices |journal=British Medical Journal |date=30 May 1998 |volume=316 |issue=7145 |pages=1625 |doi=10.1136/bmj.316.7145.1625g |pmid=11645066 |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/316/7145/1625.8 |language=en |issn=0959-8138|url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Evered |first1=D C |title='Deadly Experiments' |journal=BMJ |date=15 July 1995 |volume=311 |issue=6998 |pages=192–192 |doi=10.1136/bmj.311.6998.192b |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/311/6998/192.3|pmc=2550247 }}
Legacy
- {{cite news |title=Women thought they could trust their GP. They were part of a deadly experiment |url=https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/28/search-for-women-fed-radioactive-chapatis-during-1960s-experiment-19408003/ |work=Metro |date=29 August 2023 |language=en}}
- {{cite web |title=Search for women fed radioactive chapatis |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g9ld01 |website=BBC CWR |publisher=BBC |location=Coventry and Warwickshire |date=30 August 2023}}
- {{cite news |title=Daughter questions Coventry radioactive chapati study consent |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-66659275 |access-date=12 February 2025 |work=bbc.com/news |date=31 August 2023}}
- {{cite news |last1=Shackle |first1=Samira |title=The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/11/the-coventry-experiment-why-were-indian-women-in-britain-given-radioactive-food-without-consent |work=The Guardian |date=11 February 2025}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Tobias |first1=Jeffrey|author-link=Jeffrey S. Tobias |title=Medicine and the Media |journal=British Medical Journal |date=15 July 1995 |volume=311 |issue=6998 |pages=203 |pmc=2550260 |issn=0959-8138}}
External links
- {{cite web |last1=Brownlow |first1=John |title=Deadly Experiments (1995) |url=https://vimeo.com/856867768 |website=vimeo |language=en}}
- {{cite web |last1=Brownlow |first1=John |title=Deadly Experiments |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoWt6qrPgR4 |via=YouTube}}
- {{cite web |title=Deadly Experiments (1995) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e781fc8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117203357/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e781fc8 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |website=BFI |access-date=26 August 2023 |language=en}}
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185267/ Deadly Experiments] (TV Movie 1995) - IMDb
Category:1995 British television series debuts
Category:British English-language television shows
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