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«hundreds of Chinese scientific papers might be compromised due to their reliance upon thousands of unethically sourced organs.»

This is like saying that theses people died or were killed, and now some dumbsters will take away even the slightest hope that their death was somehow useful for the rest of us.

If I were dying in a concentration camp from the experiments of Doctor Mengele, knowing that my death would contribute to the progress of the science would have been a consolation for me.

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That's an interesting perspective, but faced with an immediate painful death I doubt science would be on your mind. Not to mention that it's not known if the research obtained is useful at all. There's already a serious crisis in Chinese science in terms of falsified results.

The only thing Mengele contributed to science, unintentionally, was the Nuremburg Code. A set of ethical principles for human experimentation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

Even Wikipedia objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

Huh? Mengele was playing at sadism, nothing more. Injecting dyes into twin's eyes to see if he could create Aryan eye colour, shooting and autopsying a still warm inmate to win a bet of whose diagnosis was correct, connecting up twins to try and make them conjoined.

His medical defence was specifically denied as he did nothing to contribute to the Nazi war effort.

He did none of the valid, but unethical, Nazi research like the well known hypothermia experiments.

I have to agree, my reference to Mengele was rather metaphorical.

You should go find a Holocaust survivor and check. I'm sure many of them take comfort in the fact that destruction of their lives contributed to the progress of science.

What can a Holocaust survivor tell us about the horrors of Nazism in 2019? They were likely toddlers at the time of Holocaust.

I'm not sure what you were trying to achieve with all the gratuitous Nazi references in this thread, but please don't post like this to HN. It leads to flamewars and we don't want those here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yes if I were a Jew I would be very happy that I may die so the true Aryan race can be born. /s Not a very sound line of reasoning.

If you were a humanist, you wouldn't care about the distinction between Jews and Aryans in the first place ;-)

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