Ask HN: Should a scientist be highly moral and give an oath to serve for good

Re:Ask HN: Should a scientist be highly moral and give an oa... by isu on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:46PM (#20779442)

> Do we now just throw away the knowledge that was gained?

Probably, yes. Would you forcibly kill another innocent person to save your life or your child's one? China does this with Uighurs (they are prisoned in camps, their health is checked and organs are extracted on demand, people are trashed then) for science and profit because they are muslims and weaker as a nation.

Seems that knowledge isn't so valuable by itself. If so, why not to trash it when it's done in a violent and shameful way.

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Re:Ask HN: Should a scientist be highly moral and give an oa... by luckylion on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:55PM (#20783058)

So if China, by those methods, cured cancer, you'd go "fruit of the poisonous tree" on that knowledge? I believe it's one thing to condone unethical experiments, and quite another to reject its findings alltogether.

Btw, China does so not only with Uighurs, but also with Han-Chinese, regular prisoners, political prisoners etc. The Chinese aren't ethical, but it's not a religion/race thing.

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