Tax Dollars Fund Human Experimentation
“You can’t go from an is to an ought.” That’s a philosophical consensus from Christians like C.S. Lewis to Atheists like David Hume. Science deals in the realm of the “is.” It looks at a clump of cells and can only make measurements, experiment and fulfill or deny predictions. Those cells may be of a human embryo, a living child, a consenting adult or an adult Jew being experimented upon in Nazi Germany.
The results of science are indifferent to the ethics involved. A scientist can experiment on an unwilling adult and get perfectly scientific results from his work. That’s because science has nothing to say about ethics. Ethics are philosophical, and how we act on what is true is determined by other disciplines like theology, epistemology or philosophy.
