Question

Q1: Would you use data from immoral human experiments like those obtained by German and Japanese researchers during World War II to advance your own scientific research? Explain your decision.

Answer 1

( I will not use data from immoral human experiments like those obtained by German and Japanese researchers during worldwar II to advance my scientific research. )

Immoral human experiments are the experiments that doesn't follow medical and human ethics. Many incidents of experiments that filled with cruelty , happened in human history in the name of medical research. Especially during the world war II , many war prisoners are suffered by the hands of cruel soldiers and medical Doctors , who were afflicting the injury on victims and were studying their physiological and psychological responses to the painful stimuli.

Some examples for such unethical human experimentation were :

* Studying about the body's response to freezing temperatures by submerging the prisoners in icy water( Jewish prisoners in Dachau Concentration camp).

* Study on the disease process of Syphilis on fetus by injecting the syphilis bacteria on pregnant women ( among prisoners) .

* Injection of Different vaccines of dreadful diseases  , that are not safe.

* sterilization experiments to prevent reproduction: Around 400,000 people undergone compulsory sterilization in Nazi camps, to find out a best sterilization method for males and females.

* Experiments to know the effect of Different chemical and poisonous gas on human body and life: many got murdered and burnt severely.

The above said examples for immoral human experiments are denying the right for informed consent from the subjects, also use the name of the research for torturing people, not using principles of humanity, following racism and negative eugenics etc. These type of researches are completely unethical and immoral, that one should not use the data for any research process. Even though still the arguments are going on regarding the use of data from immoral research for the beneficial purpose or current research advancement purpose.  

(Use of datas from immoral humanexperiments are unethical and are not agreeable for my consciousness. So I am not ready to use such data for the advancement of my research. )