Japanese Medical Experimentation

I am in no way condoning the actions of the Japanese government when I relate my following argument. I merely wish to point out that there is a silver lining in the cloud of what was an otherwise horrific series of events, the reason the American government agreed to cover up so much of the atrocities that took place. There was a great deal of information learned from these experiments. Granted, the ends in this case do not in any way justify the means. But if any positive thing can be taken away, it is that new understandings of frostbite and other areas of research were brought to light. It reminds me of the Stanley Milgram Psychology study in which participants were asked to shock other participants if they answered the questions wrong. What they didn't know was that the people they were shocking were actors, but they thought at times they might be killing them. The participants in the study were left feeling extremely distraught, even after being debriefed. In the Psychology community we recognize this as a huge violation of our current standards of research protocol, and have put guidelines in place to make sure this never happens again. However, we also regard it as an amazing study that revealed fascinating new insights into human behavior. It’s considered one of the most influential studies in the history of Psychology. Maybe if we were able to connect the information we know  today, such as the effects of frostbite, and relate it directly to the inhumane experiments which produced said information, it could result in a more healthy way to confront the brutal history. If you get frostbite and it is successfully treated, you can be saddened by the ways in which the knowledge to treat you was gathered, but thankful now that we at least have it. The same would go for any other ability to perform a certain surgery or treat a disease. This could hopefully be a way to reach the reconciliation the author wished for at the end of the article.