so-called total body irradiation. or whole body irradiation. they were done in other places, as well, houston, baylor, memorial, sloan-kettering in new york. the theory was, if you had con cancer, we knew that radiation could be used to treat cancer, maybe irradiating your whole body, total body irradiation, would help slow the cancer. actually, we had some pretty good evidence at this point that it didn't work. for the cancer. but the department of defense was very interested in the effects of total body irradiation. because if there is a nuclear war, and people get irradiated, are they going to be able to function? will a pilot who is flying a plane be able to land the plane? will they be able to fight if there's -- will they be able to work? ironically, the people they wanted to do this experiment on were precisely the people who were least likely to derive any benefit from it. we knew that certain kinds of cancer were sensitive to radiation. so irradiating those patients might expect to help them. but then the side effects of the radiation

so-called total body irradiation. or whole body irradiation. they were done in other places, as well, houston, baylor, memorial, sloan-kettering in new york. the theory was, if you had con cancer, we knew that radiation could be used to treat cancer, maybe irradiating your whole body, total body irradiation, would help slow the cancer. actually, we had some pretty good evidence at this point that it didn't work. for the cancer. but the department of defense was very interested in the effects of total body irradiation. because if there is a nuclear war, and people get irradiated, are they going to be able to function? will a pilot who is flying a plane be able to land the plane? will they be able to fight if there's -- will they be able to work? ironically, the people they wanted to do this experiment on were precisely the people who were least likely to derive any benefit from it. we knew that certain kinds of cancer were sensitive to radiation. so irradiating those patients might expect to help them. but then the side effects of the radiation

without having to irradiate the entire body. so in the oregon state, in the washington state prisons, between 1963 and 1973, there were a series of radiation experiments done to determine the effect of irradiation on testicles. why prisoners? these were healthy men who weren't going anywhere for a while. also a way for them to pay back to society for what they've done. the experiments in oregon were overseen by extremely prominent endocrinologist. a machine was made to irradiate the testicles. men were asked to lie on their stomach, testicles were placed in warm water so they would hang down and then they would be irradiated. this will be followed by biopsies and then a vasectomy. if it caused any damage, they didn't want the men having any children. the recruitment was purely by word of mouth suggesting that they knew that the atomic energy commission who was sponsoring this research saw it as sensitive and didn't want it to be too public. there was a loose and informal psychiatric examination and consultation with the chaplain

i would worry about initial confrontation, the irradiance can respond more quickly than we could because of that. trish: we have rules of engagement. it seems our typical rules were avoided when it came to freeing those hostages that were kept by iran, $400 million payment made to iran conveniently at the same time those hostages being let go and freed. in the meantime you have an issue with this $1.3 billion paid to iran, without any congressional approval right after those irani and hostages were freed. do you worry the obama administration is once again engaging in executive power ability, trying to go around voters, trying to go around congress in terms of being able to establish its own goals? >> i worry about it not just in terms of iran but establishing disqualify imperial presidency is such a bad precedent for future presidents of either party. our founding fathers set up three branches of government to be checks and balances on each other and obama is running roughshod over the constitution. specifically with iran, $1.3 billion payment was made in 13 installments, $100 million,

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such a place with ted cruz who said he would like to bomb syria to see the desert essentially be irradiatedif the republican party can see somebody like that godormal, as rational, then help us if the republicans are in charge of things. but let's take the case of hillary clinton. here is somebody who actually pushed obama to go into the libyan operation post of obama was reticent to enter the operation in libya. the french are very eager. hillary clinton led the charge against libya. this shows, to my mind, a profound dangerous tendency to thento war overseas, damn consequences. therefore, if you're looking at this from outside the united states, there is a real reason to be terrified. whoever becomes president, as medea benjamin put it to me in an interview, they will be a hawk and the white house. amy: you have an epilogue in your book "yemen and palestine." >> yes. if you consider there has been to situations where the bombing andbeen ruthless -- palestine, there's an occupation and it has been on for decades. but in the last 15 years, israel has, in a punctuated faction, bombed gaza. i

wilson's book, jonathan moreno has a wonderful book on the history of the experiments, these human irradiation experiment books, a lot more detail. one of the lessons is the medicine and the quest for knowledge has to be looked at it the in a specific political, economic, social context. it can't be understood if you take it out of the context. these radiations experiments started in the context of a world war and ended in the context of a cold war which turned quite hot on occasion, which was characterized by secrecy, which was characterized by fear that these weapons could be used against us. nonetheless some of the features that came out of these experiments continue to this day. large scale research, big research, for the idea that if you want to do a big project, that you can get government funding to do huge big protocols. even smaller protocols have to do with the era that this is coming out of. people got used to the idea that they ought to be funded it do research and many institutions are built on this notion that people doing science, people doing physics, people doing medicine shou

wilson's book, jonathan moreno has a wonderful book on the history of the experiments, these human irradiation experiment books, a lot more detail. one of the lessons is the medicine and the quest for knowledge has to be looked at it the in a specific political, economic, social context. it can't be understood if you take it out of the context. these radiations experiments started in the context of a context of a cold war which turned quite hot on occasion, which was characterized by secrecy, which was characterized by fear that these weapons could be used against us. nonetheless some of the features that came out of these experiments continue to this day. large scale research, big research, for the idea that if you want to do a big project, that you can get government funding to do huge big protocols. even smaller protocols have to do with the era that this is coming out of. people got used to the idea that they ought to be funded it do research and many institutions are built on this notion that people doing science, people doing physics, people doing medicine should get funding, should get