Bag's Rants

Rewriting History. The power of the winner.

I read this and was slightly interested in the political act of rewriting history. This discovery was done pre Nazi and a legitimate discovery is being written out for this guys political leanings.

I'm not sure that the Nazi's contribution to medicine was that great but one thing is certain a lot of lives were lost in generating the data. I remember reading many years ago that certain discoveries were made during that time that have been a great help in the fight against nature and could not have been easily replicated, even now.

Star Trek, in it's own way, visited this complex area. Another war criminal had developed a cure for this disease, or injury, I don't remember and the character, a main player wouldn't take it because of the way the discovery was made. Luckily, being fiction, it all worked out in the end. Point made, cure not used, and victim OK.

My view is that what is done is done. Make the guy a war criminal fine. imprison or execute or whatever to give a punishment. But use the data otherwise all those victims died for nothing. Let their deaths have meaning.

posted by Bag @ 9:16 pm