Are scientist immoral when they say science only look for truth and is not interested in how truth is used?

Question

Are scientist immoral when they say science only look for truth and is not interested in how truth is used . If you say science is only interested in truth not good or bad then where those nazie scientist/doctors experimenting on jews and prisoners not behaving badly and because they where doing science should not have been convicted of crimes against humanity

Answer 1

No, science cannot be moral or immoral. But people can be. Nazis experimenting on people was immoral, yes, but the goal was to further understanding. Yes, it wasn't the right thing to do, but that doesn't reflect on science. That reflects on the people doing it. Of course they should be held accountable. But you can't blame science.

Look at nuclear theory. It gave us atomic bombs which killed hundreds of thousands of people. It also gave us nuclear energy which helps millions. Science, facts, are not wrong or right. It's what you do with them.

Answer 2

You seem to be mistaking 'science' with 'experimental method' when you speak of 'scientists' in WWII performing experiments on living subjects. But the question of how a scientific discovery is used is one that has been around since people first started doing 'science'. And there are hardly any scientific discoveries that haven't been used (at one time or another) for both good *and* bad purposes.

Doug