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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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