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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 39, January 2022
Vol.1, Issue 39, January

Experiments with high pressure at high altitudes to findings in the moral world, and that not using the
find the maximum height at which soldiers could results of these experiments is as bad as implementing
jump into the vacuum. Genetic experiments to them from the start.
demonstrate the superiority of the Aryan race as one To judge whether or not the results of these experiments
of the main Nazi targets where they were conducted should be used requires that we refer to the ethics of
in concentration camps for the purpose of eugenics as research, Islamic sharia and human rights.
well as experiments on prisoners to find an antidote
for phosgene gas poisoning and experiments with
attempts to transplant limbs that led to the maiming
of prisoners because of the harsh methodology used.
The results that were reached through those
gruesome experiments are devoid of any morality
and conscience, Deep regret is felt towards the
victims of those experiments.
Although these experiments represent explicit
violations of human rights, law and conscience, there
are opinions about the possibility of using their
results. In fact, I was struck by a social media
headline asking, "Was Hitler a murderer or a savior
of humanity?". Is it possible to ignore the violations
and victims of the experiments and use the results of
the experiments?
According to Dom Wilkinson, a medical ethicist at
Oxford University, "Obviously, by using this
unethically obtained information, it seems that we are
engaged in that shameful past."
He also says that if these findings are used, it will be
understood as encouraging unethical experimentation
on humans again. This is not the opinion of
Wilkinson alone, but other scientists and experts
agree with him.
While scientists who have used the results of those
experiments argue that there is no alternative to these

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