• Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 hours ago

    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?

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      10 hours ago

      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.

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        6 hours 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.