**TL;DR: Despite the unforgiveable nature of the Nazi experiments, the collected data should be used to improve present society.** There is huge ethical debate over whether it is morally right to use data from experiments on patients who were murdered and tortured by the Nazis in the name of ‘research’. Although these experiments are morally corrupt and were inexcusably carried out, the possibility that they could help save or at least benefit lives today is unavoidable. [Dom Wilkinson](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190723-the-ethics-of-using-nazi-science), a medical ethicist as the University of Oxford, explains that ‘the basic intuition’ for reasoning against the use of Nazi research ‘is that if information had been obtained unethically, but we use that information, then we then become complicit in that past.’ However, it seems such an issue could be at least alleviated through the public acknowledgement that using such data does is no way condone the horrific Nazi methods. [Kristie Moe]( https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/14/thisweekssciencequestions.cancer) reinforces this idea by encouraging us not to ‘let the inhumanity of the experiments blind us to the possibility that some good may be salvaged from the ashes.’ Examples of Nazi findings include: - Detecting X-rays as a possible source of genetic damage - Identifying the dangers of organochlorine pesticides such as DDT - Detecting asbestos as a reason for lung cancer - Developing the first high-powered electron microscope - Advancing the promotion of breast self-examination to detect tumours at an early stage - And much, much more… These medical advancements in no way justify the Nazi atrocities, however they do show the huge potential for beneficial and even life-saving methods that could be found in the collected data that has not yet been analysed. And so, the best way to make at least some good out of the immoralities of Nazi research is to use it.

**TLDR - Nazi experimentation and research contributed far less to medical advancement than is thought. In reality it was just useless torture and a waste of life** There is a misconception that important medical advances are the result of the horrific Nazi experimentation during the holocaust, when ethics were of little concern. Yet many modern researchers have denounced the scientific validity of the experiments. Firstly, it must be considered that the experiments and the politics of the the Nazi's cannot be separated. The doctors were working for the *'glory of the Nazi Party'*, on people they considered less than human. When such thinking is at the heart of the experiments, the validity of the results cannot be thought to be without prejudice, and without some skewing of the data. Secondly, the subjects were not representative of a healthy population. They were incredibly malnourished, overworked, psychologically tortured individuals, all of which would have a profound impact on the results of the experimentation. This would make the research useless in forming treatments for the public. Whilst the debate of 'if the Nazi experiments produced advancements, would it be ethical to use them' is a valid one, the key word there is 'if'. It [is not widely accepted](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-ethics-of-using-medical-data-from-nazi-experiments) that much good has come from them specifically rather than elsewhere in the medical field.