The Chronicle of Higher Education

Iowa Settles Lawsuit Over Stuttering Study

Almost 70 years after orphans were pressured to stutter as part of a speech experiment at the University of Iowa, the State of Iowa has agreed to pay them $925,000 to settle a lawsuit.

The six plaintiffs in the lawsuit — three subjects in the study and the estates of three others — initially...

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