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> What is the point of having ethical standards if there isn't a high cost for breaking them? society is already harmed by the initial crime, and now it has to
by sigstoat 8y ago
> What is the point of having ethical standards if there isn't a high cost for breaking them?
society is already harmed by the initial crime, and now it has to pay the price a second time by forgetting?
strip the researchers' names and institutions from all copies of the articles, and adjust bibliographic standards of all reputable journals to require citations say the articles were authored by "Ethical disgrace" or whatever.
- anigbrowl 8y agoYou're treating the harms as fungible, and for a lot of people that's not the case. If the research was good it can be done again in an ethical fashion. Here's a longish but well-argued explanation of why it's a terrible idea: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-ethics-of-using-medical-data-from-nazi-experiments https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-ethics-of-using-med...