Sharyl Attkisson: Researchers manipulated oxygen levels of premature babies in a federal study

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Epoch Health

Mothers of extremely premature babies were told a federal study would simply measure their children’s height and weight.

But what Sharyl Attkisson uncovered was something else entirely.

Researchers were manipulating the babies’ oxygen levels, which she says could increase the risk of blindness or death.

“The oxygen monitors put on these study babies were intentionally altered to give false readings, if you can believe it.”

Why?

“The researchers didn’t want the medical personnel in the hospital coming in and adjusting the oxygen for the good of the individual baby.”

The babies were kept inside assigned oxygen ranges, Attkisson explained, “which was assigned basically with the flip of a coin to see what would happen.”

Several mothers later had severely disabled children. One baby died.

Attkisson carefully noted that the mothers cannot prove the study caused those outcomes.