What are examples of research topics/areas where ethical concerns have held science back? Are there any? I guess “cloning humans” is such a field?

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    5 days ago

    There was a pretty high corpus on research done based on nazi science on the effects of temperature on the human body that is forbidden to use as reference. Those reference could help scientific discoveries, but for kinda obvious reasons they can’t be used. I said kinda because they were used iirc until the 70’s, when people started to question the ethics of using them.