Is this the planet that I’m living on?

In 1946, one study exposed seventeen subjects to radioactive iron. The second study, which involved a series of seventeen related subexperiments, exposed fifty-seven subjects to radioactive calcium between 1950 and 1953. It is clear that the doses involved were low and that it is extremely unlikely that any of the children who were used as subjects were harmed as a consequence. These studies remain morally troubling, however, for several reasons. First, although parents or guardians were asked for their permission to have their children involved in the research, the available evidence suggests that the information provided was, at best, incomplete. Second, there is the question of the fairness of selecting institutionalized children at all, children whose life circumstances were by any standard already heavily burdened.

Human history, Reuchlin argued, divides into three periods. In the first, a natural period, God revealed Himself to the Patriarchs through the three-lettered name of “Shaddai” (ydv,+s dy). In the period of the Torah, He revealed Himself to Moses through the four-lettered name of the Tetragrammaton (hwhy, yhwh). In the period of redemption He revealed Himself through five letters: the Tetragrammaton with the addition of the letter shin, thus spelling “Yehoshuah” (hvwhy, yhw+sh) or “Jesus.” Thus Reuchlin’s arrangement was able to combine the Jewish belief in three ages (that of the Chaos, that of the Torah, and and that of the Messiah) with the tripartite Christian division of a reign of the Father, a reign of the Son, and a reign of the Holy Spirit.

It is probably obvious that Chaos, Torah, and Messiah together yield Taos, New Mexico when factored with the number 57 (four of the first six US Presidents were inaugurated at age 57 and 57 human experimental subjects were dosed with sublethal injections of radiation at Fernald — coincidence? I doubt it).

Mitt Romney tried to sell off the Fernald School and bury the State of Massachusetts’ association with the history of eugenics skunking up the place. No Ronald Reagan, he didn’t get the job done, but his political heir, Deval Patrick, is fighting it out in court, doing his best to ditch the albatross of State liability and complicity in yahweh knows how many nasty human experiments. Clean protocols for human experimental subjects were implemented quite recently.

It took the libertarian heirs of Reagan years to finalize plans for the destruction of the public health service Agnews hospital offered. When Governor Reagan turned out the first wave of developmentally disabled and behaviorally impaired patients to find their way to the refrigerator cartons and hot air grates of San Francisco in the early seventies, it seemed like privatization and the sale of the facility would soon follow. But twenty-five years elapsed before Sun Microsystems was able to grab that brass ring of public/private cooperation, and it would be another ten years or more before they were able to turn the rest of the patients out to “private care” in “community settings.”

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