Which of the following did NOT happen?
A. Over the 40 years of the Tuskegee Study, many physicians publicly complained about it by writing letters to medical journals and tried to have it stopped.
B. In 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, military personnel were forced to take experimental vaccines against biological agents.
C. In 1994, it was revealed that physicians and scientists working for agencies of the federal government had exposed many Americans to non-therapeutic radiation experiments without the consent of the American subjects.
D. In the 1940's at the University of Rochester Hospital, physicians injected plutonium into some healthy patients, without their knowledge, to Study what kind of physical damage would happen to people during a nuclear war.
E. In 1997, President Clinton apologized on behalf of the federal government to living survivors of the Tuskegee Study.
Answer: A
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