Evil Data?
According to the Scientific Method the nature of Scientific Data is to help us explain natural phenomena, advance diagnosis/treatment in Medical Sciences, and help us to better understand and explain our environment. There have been times that collecting certain data has caused the torture of innocent humans, so would this data be considered evil or is the people collecting the data? Data cannot be evil, the people collecting the data are the ones that are evil.
Following World War II Nazi physicians performed brutal medical experiments to helpless concentration camp inmates. People were forced to become subjects in very dangerous studies against their will. Almost all of the subjects experienced incredible suffering, mutilation and indescribable pain. “The experiments often were deliberately designed to terminate in a fatal outcome for their victims” (The Ethics of Using Medical Data). They learned stuff like how long a German pilot downed by enemy fire could survive the frozen waters of the North Sea. It is said that “Nazi Concentration Camp science is often branded as bad science” (The Ethics of Using Medical Data), and I agree. The data still does exist though, so should we take what the doctors learned from the torturing and use it too possibly save lives or benefit society? Yes because if not then those lives would have died for no reason. They would have been tortured to death for nothing. People say “what kind of “good” could be salvaged from the