Ok, I'm going to respond because you've gotten back on track.

I am very much aware of the disgusting human experimentations and deplorable eugenics in the USA's history. I find it disgusting and ethically wrong. The USA is far from the only free country with a less then sterling ethical history. If anything it proves that science can get out of hand when society isn't watching. In the last 50 years civil rights have advanced and people are much more informed and active about things. We should strive for better ethics oversight not less.

I've pretty much said my peace so I think I'll go back to talking about video games now.

Do you know any Nazis who dropped atomic bombs?

Of course ethics holds Science back. The whole point of an ethical code is to prevent us from cutting open live humans and observing their inner workings. If that holds back Science a few years, I don't see the big deal.

Just wait 'till they begin experimenting on you involuntarily because you had no qualms with little to no ethics in regards to science.

You do realize that scientists have murdered many people against their will in the name of their cause, right? The Nazi's weren't advanced in science because of their lack of ethics, but their funding of sciences. Comparatively, Japan killed so many people and gave little regard for science, but had much less progress.

You say that the US is behind on stem cell research, yet you know so little about the actual research to know that Bush never banned funding on said research, but only on embryonic stem cell research. Of which, the vast, and I mean vast amount of breakthroughs have been with non-embryonic research. Look it up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_research#Research_patents

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.

That one backfired on them because they booted out top Jewish scientist.  If they weren't so antisemitic then they would probably had the atomic bomb first.  You do remember where Einstein came from?  Also, Wernher Von Braun helped USA rocket research more than anything.

Funny how science is already assumed to be good. Science has brought us much technological advancement in many facets of life like healthcare or entertainment (videogames for one, heh). But can we at least pause for a second on how this has actually improved our lives?

Are people born now somehow living better lives than our ancestors of recent and long past? Ethics may very well hold science back, but how much is the lack of science really holding back our happiness?

Music is not better today, just different (is Mozart or Jimmi Hendrix's music somehow how less capable than the big production bands of today like a Radiohead or a Nine Inch Nails, or some crazy IDM band?). Video games aren't necessarily better (are 3d games somehow superior to 2d games?). I could go on like this about every technological advancement in every facet of the Arts.

Are my parents happier today simple because they are living longer lives due to science? We may have been more vulnerable to more ailments in the past, but being healthy doesn't equate to happiness, it is only a means to an ends, not an ends in itself.

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?

Could easily be argued that science has led humans to be even less healthy.  I could go on about processed foods, high fructose corn syrup, prescription pills, and many other "improvements" that have actually led to a decrease in health.

Yes, I'm aware of Einstein's origin. I was just pointing out the irrelevance of that discussion. Using people as slaves nowadays wouldn't help science one bit.

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.