Could today's anti-science hysteria lead to court trials for Louis Pasteur and Jonas Salk for injecting live viruses into humans? Could it be argued that Pasteur and Salk "acted intentionally negligently," or that their "actions were unreasonably unsafe"? That is the irrational thinking of the families who dragged BNCT neurosur-geons, the late Drs. William H. Sweet and Lee Edward Farr, to court with a tort claim in 1995. On Aug. 27, 2002, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling laid to rest a tort claim filed in 1995 by relatives of two research patients who were consenting participants in BNCT trials in the 1960s. The court rejected the broad-ranging claims against BNCT pioneering research doctors Farr and Sweet, along with a university, a hospital, and the government of the United States.
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