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Is it ok to use the research data that the Nazis collected during the holocaust?

During the holocaust, the Nazi doctors conducted experiments on Jewish men, women, and children, in much the same way that current scientists use lab rats. For example, if the scientists wanted to know more about hypothermia and it's effects on the body, they would submerge a jewish person in ice water for hours at a time to view the results. Much of this data isn't valid or useful, but according to a few scientists, some of this data is valid and useful to scientific experiments today. My question for you: Is it morally okay to use this data in scientific experiments to further our knowledge in the medical and scientific field? ~ [ Source: http://www.cedarville.edu/personal/sullivan/cedarethics/papers/2011/wilson.pdf ]

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Data's data. As long as you aren't harming anyone and possibly make some donation to an anti-genocide awareness fund or something if there are profits involved.

This debate is similar to an episode of star trek voyager named 'nothing human', where research of a cardassian scientist (who used similar cruel methods on bajorans) is used to save a member of the crew, although she refuses to allow the treatment because of the origin of the research.

Side: Yes

If any medical or scientific knowledge can be taken from it, then yes, it is ok. Letting it go to waste would just be idiotic.

Side: Yes
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It all depends on to what end you are using said data. It's not like your conducting the experiments yourself so your not actually doing anything wrong. And to add on to that those people died awful deaths if you use the data that resulted from those deaths to do something good then at least those awful deaths would not have been for nothing.

Side: Yes

What's done is done. What remains, if it's useful it should be used, that's just logical.

Side: Yes
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It's being used .

Side: Yes
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The data has allready been collected, so it would be okay for it to be used.

Side: Yes
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