[PavlovsCat]

This is MIT, not Mengele's Auschwitz.

That doesn't answer the question at all. It kinda just assumes that the question isn't really interesting because of course MIT isn't like Auschwitz, even in the instance where it kinda is.

[akiselev]

For it to be Mengele's Auschwitz they'd need to perform horribly unethical experiments AND not give a rat's ass about consent.

The latter happened here, not the former.

[PavlovsCat]

The lack of consent, or the lack of even the ability to say no, is kind of what makes it unethical.

And hey, it's not like anyone even brought that up other than in defense of MIT, to dismiss the question "why would they do X and not Y".