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Examples, when ethical concerns stopped scientific advances? (mander.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by partner_boat_slug@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Are you looking for examples specifically about things that someone wanted or considered researching, or anything at all? Because there's an infinite number of things that could technically be researched if people were a freely disposable resource.

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[–] partner_boat_slug@mander.xyz [S] 1 point 7 months ago

I guess there are also things that do not the disposal of humans (directly), that are still ethically questionable. For example research of optimized mass surveillance and adjacent fields.

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