Is it ever appropriate to use data as morally repugnant as that which was extracted from victims of Nazism? If so, under what circumstances?

These incidents prompt a number of questions for the scientific community. Several scientists who have sought to use the Nazi research have stirred soul-searching about the social responsibility and potential abuses of science. These studies and references frequently bear no disclaimer as to how the data was obtained. Many scholars are now discovering in reputable medical literature multiple references to Nazi experiments, or republished works of former SS doctors. But what is being said of the continued use of the Nazi doctors' medical research? Professional modern medicine has had little difficulty condemning the Nazi doctors as evil men. Since the Nuremberg trials, our society has had to confront the reality that the Nazi doctors were guilty of premeditated murder masqueraded as research.

The Nuremberg trial of the doctors revealed evidence of sadistic human experiments conducted at the Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. Twenty doctors were charged with War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. Nazi Medical Experimentation: Table of Contents| Photographs| Background & Overviewįollowing World War II, leading Nazi doctors were brought to justice before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

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