Ansell keys wanted the world to know that the starvation experiment was his idea. But like so many other thigs about that study, the truth is more complicated. It goes back to ansel kes's earlier experiments with war time volunteers and the experiments on vitamens. The conscientious objectors who are working in keys's lab realize that this is a military experiment.
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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