Ethics holds science back

[mrstickball]

sethnintendo said:

mrstickball said:


There has to be some restraint in regards to involuntarily preforming science on others in the name of their own benefit. Such things have happened very often in time past, which is a very scary thing that we should not repeat.

Sad thing that it will continue to happen till humans no longer exist.  I view the prescription drug industry in about the same view as scientist destroying life for research.  I have a very negative view towards the prescription drug industry though.  I should have stated embryonic but my main point with that was they were leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization.  They were going to be thrown in the trash so theoretically they were trash.  How is saving trash, saving a life?

I never said that using leftover embryos would of violated ethical concerns.

What I am talking about are experiments like the Nazis leaving a hundred newborns in a room and performing experiements to see how they responded to no stimulation - causing many of them to die.

Or Japan's Unit 731. Or The Aversion Project. Or the North Korean Cabbage Experiment. Or the Soviet's Poison Gulag. Or the Tuskeegee Syphillis Project. And so on.

Those studies may of had some slight benefit, but resulted in the murder of many. I would contend that under restrained scientific study, those people could have provided valuable services and businesses, which could of augmented the economy. In doing such, those monies and additional people could then be routed to become scientists themselves, or at least monies used to fund other scientific projects. Instead, they lay dead or dying because someone wanted to see if a bullet to the head was fatal or not, or if genital mutiliation actually cured homosexuality.