Psychic experiments conducted on Brandon residential school kids - Manitoba - CBC News

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Psychic experiments conducted on Brandon residential school kids - Manitoba - CBC News: The article is just another example of what went on behind closed doors at the schools.

In the 1940s and 50s, American scientists subjected malnourished children to nutritional experiments.

Rather than getting food, kids were given vitamin supplements or even experimental flour.

That information was discovered by expert Ian Mosby, a post-doctoral fellow at the L.R Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.

“The fact that researchers were given access to the children, that should give us pause to think what other researchers were given access to the students,” said Mosby. “The concern is: were there other experiments?”

Mosby said it's the only study that he knows of that was conducted in residential schools in Manitoba, but he believes there were likely more harmful experiments done on vulnerable kids.

Linklater said the fact the experiments occurred at all is an indication of the control administrators had over the students and how the children were dehumanized.