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[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can critique him all you want but how in the world did you come to the conclusion that his and goals were knowledge for knowledge’s sake?

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have problems with the doctors' way of doing so, but their act was to allow an informed consenting(? it's complicated) couple with an HIV-positive parent to have a child resistant to HIV. It was problematic, yes, but very different to the war crime experiments, much of which was simply about morbid curiosity and torture.

[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, comparing this to like the experiments of Mengele or Unit 731 definitely would be bordering on Holocaust denial/downplaying by comparing something like this, problematic issues withstanding, with those horrific abuses of humanity.