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Re:Soviet Scientists Made This Two-Headed Dog | Motherboard by cLeEOGPw on Thursday August 22, 2013 @07:36AM (#6256463)
I say that the ethics should be left out of the science. If ethics conflict with research - priority should go to research, until alternative, more ethic approach is found. And the ones responsible for alternative should be the ones that claim the current method is unethical - do not let non-scientists to forbid a research just because they think it is unethical.
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Re:Soviet Scientists Made This Two-Headed Dog | Motherboard by cabalamat on Thursday August 22, 2013 @08:40AM (#6256712)
Good idea, let's start by experimenting on you.
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Re:Soviet Scientists Made This Two-Headed Dog | Motherboard by arachnid92 on Thursday August 22, 2013 @07:51AM (#6256532)
What? Really? This argument is something I would expect someone like Josef Mengele to say, not a modern human being in the 21st century.

You can't just leave ethics out of science. Doing so would pave the way for so many atrocities against both humans and animals "in the name of science" (and history is evidence of this).

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Re:Soviet Scientists Made This Two-Headed Dog | Motherboard by cLeEOGPw on Thursday August 22, 2013 @12:21PM (#6258090)
If the experiments on monkeys would lead to a medicine that would improve life of millions, would you still ban it "for the sake of humanity"? Ethics sure have its place, but it must not hinder the vital progress. Today you save monkey from being "treated unethically", tomorrow you die with the same monkey from unstudied disease.
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Re:Soviet Scientists Made This Two-Headed Dog | Motherboard by JabavuAdams on Thursday August 22, 2013 @09:11AM (#6256855)
You're designing a human system with no feedback loops or separation of powers.

A minimal understanding of human nature, and a quick reading of history should convince you that this is incredibly stupid, to the point of being wilfully negligent.

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Re:Soviet Scientists Made This Two-Headed Dog | Motherboard by JanezStupar on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:33AM (#6257752)
Yes, lets leave sociopaths to their own devices. As they are the only ones not constrained by ethics.

I can imagine this would work really well. /sarcasm

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