"The desire to say "that's not real science" is emotional, but it's not accurate." I thought that. I was like "OK, no one wants to touch this and they are righ

"The desire to say "that's not real science" is emotional, but it's not accurate." I thought that. I was like "OK, no one wants to touch this and they are right, but there has to be some valuable insights!" IIRC the only thing that they learnt was that the human body can survive longer than they thought in very cold water, but even that was hinted by tons of anecdotal evidence. Really, the lack of protocols and basic measurements looks like it was sub-highschool level. Go read some of the reports, it was mostly about cruelty.