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Dr. Stanley Plotkin, January 2018. ATTY: Have you ever used orphans to study an experimental vaccine? DR. PLOTKIN: Yes. ATTY: Have you ever used the mentally handicapped to study an experimental vaccine? DR. PLOTKIN: I don’t recollect ever doing studies in mentally handicapped individuals. At the time in the 1960s, it was not an uncommon practice. ATTY: So you’re saying -- I’m not clear on your answer. I’m sorry. Have you ever used mentally handicapped to study an experimental vaccine? DR. PLOTKIN: What I’m saying is I don’t recall specifically having done that, but that in the 1960s, it was not unusual to do that. And I wouldn’t deny that I may have done so. ATTY: Well, there’s an article entitled “Attenuation of RA 27/3 Rubella Virus in WI38 Human Diploid Cells.” Are you familiar with that article? DR. PLOTKIN: Yes. ATTY: In that article, one of the things it says is 13 seronegative mentally retarded children were given RA 27/3 vaccine? DR