Hundreds of inmates at San Quentin were injected with bacteria in the 1940s.

Evidence

During the war and just after, in 1944, 1945, and 1946, Meyer, hired by the Office of Scientific Research and Development to develop a dependable plague vaccine, injected bacteria into hundreds of inmates at San Quentin prison, after the prison’s warden, Clinton Duffy, put out a call for “human guinea pigs.” — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 201

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 201