>>12056586>>12056596No, not at all. Very little valuable medical information was learned from the experiments done by the Nazis and Japanese in WWII. There were a few things, but almost everything they did uncovered no useful information. Not to mention they weren't exactly scientifically rigorous blinded trials, to say the least.
We probably have learned some things we otherwise would have taken longer to learn due to general less ethics about human experimentation, but it has nothing to do with war, and I don't think all that much was learned.
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>>12056594 is right, so much inhumane experimentation has been done on rodents that a lot of what we know has come out of that. In theory if we threw out all of our ethics over human experimentation and started testing humans just like we test rodents, we probably could learn some more things, but it's not worth it.
>>12056599War probably did speed up some discoveries in terms of the necessity of treating battlefield wounds and such, yeah. But has zero to do with human suffering or illegal practices. War, in general, accelerates pretty much every industry and field.
