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The Eugenics Office inflicted its cruelty from the beginning.

Very early on, in 1915, they discovered in their scientific
research that pellagra — a disease that still inflicted a high
death toll — was caused by an insufficiency of niacin.
The cure was a simple dietary one.

Instead of spreading that information publicly, the Eugenics
Office urged a diet of corn, which provides no niacin,

and then viciously attacked other medical researchers
who claimed that niacin prevented pellagra.

In particular, Mrs. Harriman ordered the Eugenics Office director, William Davenport,
to heap contempt on the "niacin theory."

She knew he wouldn't let her down.
What had drawn her to hire him in the first place was an article
in which he singled out the Irish as "defectives who genetically
were not able to ward off tuberculosis."

So with that moral and scientific view of humanity, he had no
qualms about complying with her demand.

Financed by Mrs. Harriman, he published voluminous position papers
discrediting the theory about niacin.

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