Episode 22: The Lyles Station Radiation Experiments

Beyond the Caution Tape

In this episode, we describe the atrocities that happened to ten school children in one of the most prominent, first Black-American settlements. These children were given extraordinary doses of radiation in a government-funded experiment under the guise that they were getting treated for scalp fungus, which none of them even had.

Sources:

1. https://www.digitalresearch.bsu.edu/digitalcivilrightsmuseum/items/show/86
2. https://www.ourweekly.com/2011/04/21/radiation-and-the-young-like-sheep-to-slaughter/
3. https://www.cracked.com/article_41362_4-people-who-unknowingly-became-guinea-pigs-in-awful-experiments.html
4. Wikipedia