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Might not using the data lend a belated dignity to the victims, so that their
lives were not lost for nothing?
"Of course, nobody in their right mind condones the experiment. The question
is, Given that this fiendish thing was done, what do you do with the
information that exists. ... I suspect that the prisoners would have wanted to
have the information used to help somebody."
—Todd Thorslund, vice president of ICF-Clement, an environmental consulting
company that wrote a risk-assessment report for the Environmental Protection
Agency that cited Nazi phosgene experiments
[54]
"The suffering is done—let someone benefit from all the pain."
—Lucien A. Ballin, member of a military intelligence assault force that helped
unearth Nazi medical-experiments data in 1945
[55]
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References
54. Shabecoff, Philip. "Head of E.P.A. Bars Nazi Data in Study on Gas."
The New York Times, 3/23/88, p. 1.
55. Siegel, p. 1.
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