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Originally Posted by meeera
The ethics of using any data at all from unethical experiments is, as you must know, incredibly controversial in scientific and medical fields.
On the Nazi concentration camp data specifically, the bulk of it was not actually quality, useful research in the first place. There's a pretty decent & readable summary of that here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistoria...utions_to_the/ |
Yes, I know. I'm not saying that the end always justifies the means and we should knowingly do harmful things to others because the end result is more important than the harm done. But neither do I think we should always refuse to use something merely because it was built upon something illegal or harmful. That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
But then, I'm a pragmatist. More idealistic people obviously have different opinions.