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Re:Why We Disagree with The New York Times by StanislavPetrov on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:07PM (#17231825)
>If you Google for primary literature related to Tuskegee, you will find, front-and-center, publications describing the ethical disaster that it was.

Your citations were published ~50 years after the Tuskegee exeripments. A proper analogy would be to compare your citations to the ethical condemntations of Facebook made 50 years from now.

>And, where did the Nazis publish, again?

The Nazis published in all of the front-and-center, mainstream publications after they were brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip (among other operations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

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Re:Why We Disagree with The New York Times by jack9 on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:42PM (#17234312)
> A proper analogy would be to compare your citations to the ethical condemntations of Facebook made 50 years from now.

When the findings are published has no bearing on the ethics of the experiments. Ironically, the half century lead time does not impinge on the impact, as much as the chronology strengthens the impact.

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