Volunteers wanted to give relief, and if they couldn't go abroad. They could use science to determine how that relief should be given. Not every one who suffers is a victim. If we are at the point wher we don't understand that fact where we have a moral vocabulary for victim hood and none for self sacrifice, then god help us.
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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