/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm going to start up a new thread on the morals of these prison tests, Statesville prison is the famous one, used as a defense for Nazi warcrimes.
you can see in this paper >>15573810 that they knowingly used ineffective drugs like quinine, but further experimentation using more intense variants of plasmodium and various forms of chemotherapy were used.
these experiments were rushed past ethics screenings in semi-secret to support the south pacific offensive.
Statesville is a nasty prison for very bad people, but under wartime, the US experimented on its own people for military goals. But this testing found chloroquine more effective and less toxic than pamaquine (which was controlled by germans at the time) and far better than tonic water. Tests that are still the basis for more modern therapies adopted by the WHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Aqg9bZ-zQ
(the experimental design is nearly identical to the other papers in Georgia and San Francisco, also nasty prisons)

was this justified?