<story><title>The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexggordon</author><text>I grew up in St. Louis and I found out about chemical testing[0] that went on here awhile ago.&lt;p&gt;I think the scariest part was that I&amp;#x27;m sure it was specifically tested in a low-income area purposely, because the people there could probably do less about it. A relevant bit from the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family&amp;#x27;s apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn&amp;#x27;t know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages.&lt;p&gt;The fact that there probably are still people in the US government making similar decisions makes me a lot more nervous about life.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;army-sprayed-st-louis-with-toxic-dust-2012-10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;army-sprayed-st-louis-with-to...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abhinai</author><text>&amp;quot;... the court held that the government was immune to a lawsuit for negligence and that they were justified in conducting tests without subjects&amp;#x27; knowledge.&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I sincerely hope there was some rationale to this decision that I do not know or understand. Otherwise it would be very hard for me to have any faith left in our judicial system.</text></comment>