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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Not that I support it in any way of course, but he's not wrong. There's probably a lot of medical knowledge to be gained by seeing how the babies he experimented on develop in the future. It's just that the ends don't justify the means.

[–] AnyOldName3 43 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It depends on the specifics of the experiment. Throughout the 20th century, the people most keen on unethical medical experiments seemed the least able to design useful experiments. Sometimes people claim that we learned lots from the horrific medical experiments taking place at Nazi concentration camps or Japanese facilities under Unit 731, but at best, it's stuff like how long does it take a horribly malnourished person to die if their organs are removed without anaesthesia or how long does it take a horribly malnourished person who's been beaten for weeks to freeze to death, which aren't much use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This one was making a child with an HIV-positive parent resistant to HIV, so it's a bit better than 731 torture.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 4 points 1 day ago

It's crazy that people are trying to make this comparison. They are worlds apart. Notice how the post and most people talking about it aren't discussing what he actually did? Because the situation gets a lot murkier when you learn the details.

"Experimenting on babies" - What?! That's unethical and immoral! Must be junk science with no benefit!

"Made babies at risk of HIV immune to it" - Well... That's good for the babies, but maybe he should have gone through proper channels.

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