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Yes, and if we completely eliminated all other ethical restrictions on research, we'd innovate all the faster. Get those old Nazi scientists on the phone, there

• hnbad 4y ago
  The thing most people don't get about the Nazi scientists is that Nazi science was actually pretty bad because it turns out being a Nazi makes you a worse scientist. The horrific "experiments" most people think of had no scientific value and amounted to little more than torture and abuse but even "normal" science was hampered by paranoia about the supposedly corrupting influence of Jewish scientists' research. The same is true about the Wunderwaffen btw. The "wonder weapons" were more of a lame marketing gimmick than actually feasible threats. They were mostly inconveniently oversized versions of existing weapons with no strategic use. Most of them never saw the light of day but wouldn't have skewed the outcome of the war, at least not in any direction favorable to the Nazis themselves.