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** Dombrowski makes the somewhat inane disclaimer that he does not endorse any of the NAZI's research.

1) Biggest fundamental ethical issue: Nazi's attempted to justify their actions by calling them "scientific research"
The scientist writing the technical documents stripped the humanity from the people they were testing, subjugating them to mere specimens.

2) Second fundamental ethical issue is sacrificing morals because of some great scientific cause or scientific merit.

*Reality behind the research: Nazi scientists were mass murderers/torturers/eugenicists.

Argument against using unethical scientific data still exists today and organizations like The New England Journal of Medicine has made it very clear that no matter the brilliance or groundbreaking nature of a scientific report, it has refused to publish anything with questionable ethics.

Drawing a hardline against progress in order to preserve ethics is vital, however opposition in support of progress at all cost will try hard to stretch the boundaries.

Nazi's redefined medical terms to suit their purposes and clear their consciences.
*For example: "Euthanasia" is commonly understood as "mercy killing" but Nazi scientists redefined it to suit a diabolical/pragmatic end which basically included being able to put someone to death if "science" deemed them unworthy to live.

*That's seriously messed up and Dombrowski/Katz points out that the objectification of humans must be avoided at all cost. It is a slippery slope.

THe scientists would talk about the machines and methods they used to kill the Jews in technical terms, completely avoiding the reality of what they actually were doing. They were completely blinded by constantly reminding themselves in their documentation that what they were doing was nothing more than scientific research for human betterment.

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