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Nazi human experimentation was torture done under the auspices of junk-science. It was recognized as such even by the people of that time period.

Nothing that they studied is taught in science programs anywhere today.

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My point is many will say the same thing about animal experimentation today. And there are doctors that reference the Nazi experiments, even if most refuse to ever look at the data.

http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/learn-from-nazi-medical-rese...

While the theories they developed were junk, both Nazi and Imperial Japanese torture experiments play a big role in our modern safety standards and guidelines.

E.g. modern guidelines on how long a human can be safely exposed to cold, or how much blood they can lose were founded on data the USA took from Japanese researches in exchange for pardons.

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