• marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    13 days ago

    That’s a weird way to phrase it given some of the data is still used today, for example with the frostbite information specifically.

    But yes the US is made up of all the nazis and evil people they claimed to want to fight. Because they didn’t really want to fight them, it was just the most profitable thing to do at the time.

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        13 days ago

        Out of sheer interest, is it because the data was discredited or is there an ethics issue that kills a paper once it’s been cited?

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          My understanding is there was little to no actual science in that data.

          To be science, the data would need to be systematic and care would need to be taken to exclude confounding factors. What that unit did doesn’t become science simply because they made notes.

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          We just don’t have much use for data about how frostbite affects people who’ve already been tortured first.