Belief in Human Exceptionalism Only Real Protection of Human Subjects in Research

Belief in Human Exceptionalism Only Real Protection of Human Subjects in Research » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: It is well known that Nazi “doctors” engaged in horrendous medical experiments with concentration camp inmates. They thought it was fine and right to do so because they believed they were working on so-called untermenschen, that is, humans of lesser value. There is no such thing as an untermenschen, we were told correctly after the Nuremberg Tribunals, as some of these butchers found out the hard way when they met the hangman’s noose. And yet, concurrently with those monstrous human experiments–and worse, into the 60s, barely 20 years later–American researchers intentionally infected people deadly diseases.