From the "You have to be kidding" file

Did you see the article in the Star yesterday about the secret test spraying in the "projects" of St. Louis (and San Antonio, it should be pointed out)? (Link at bottom):

Secret testing in St. Louis was no health risk, Army says

Clandestine experiments were conducted in poor and mostly black areas during the Cold War era.

ST. LOUIS | -- An Army investigation into secret chemical testing in impoverished areas of St. Louis during the Cold War era has corroborated three previous studies that the testing posed no health risk to those who lived in the areas, according to a letter from a top Army official.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, on schools and in other locations to spray zinc cadmium sulfide, a fine fluorescent powder, into the air. The testing was part of a biological weapons program and St. Louis was chosen because it bore some resemblance to Russian cities that the U.S. might attack.

Right.

And what were they going to say? That sure, they did it and it was wrong and it likely screwed people up? You think they're going to 'fess up to any problems here?

So what are they basing their claim on, anyway, the Army? That no one was effected by this negatively in any way? Ever? At all?

If this isn't an example of both racism and classism at its worst, I don't know what is.

One last question.

If this wasn't going to bother anyone, why didn't they do it in the wealthy areas of these cities?

Link: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/04/3900164/secret-testing-in-st-louis-was.html