The Article connects the advertisement run in the San Francisco Chronicle and the story of Lou Byers by noting that both raised alarm about practices at the V.A. hospitals.

Discussion of Ad in the San Francisco Chronicle and Lou Byers

It is noteworthy that the V.A. hospital was recruiting explicitly veterans for the spinal tap procedure because as opposed to veterans of other wars, in the 1970s the majority of the veterans of the Vietnam War were unemployed which made them targets of V.A. exploitation. 

Exploitation of Vietnam War Veterans

The article "V.A. Hospital Pays For Human Guinea Pigs: Performs Psychosurgery on Black Oakland Youth" discusses an advertisement running in the San Francisco Chronicle recruiting healthy male veterans for a paid research study where they would receive two spinal taps over two days.

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"V.A. Hospital Pays For Human Guinea Pigs: Performs Psychosurgery on Black Oakland Youth," was the third and final article published in the Black Panther about Lou Byers, published a week after "Mother of Psychosurgery Victim Appeal for Community Help."

"V.A. Hospital Pays For Human Guinea Pigs: Performs Psychosurgery on Black Oakland Youth"

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

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