The Ethics
Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments
Baruch C. Cohen, Esq.
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Baruch C. Cohen,
Esq. Notes
Baruch C. Cohen's practice includes all aspects of creditors' and debtors'
rights, corporate reorganizations, personal bankruptcies, and all types of bankruptcy
litigation in state, federal and bankruptcy courts. Mr. Cohen is admitted to practice
before all California state courts, the United States Court of Appeals - Ninth Judicial
Circuit, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, the United States District Courts for the
Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California.
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Oftentimes, good is not supposed to emerge from bad. The Book of Samuel
(15:1) related the episode in which God commissioned King Saul to destroy the Amalekite
nation, their King, Agag, and all of their property. Saul violated God's command and
spared the best of the Amalekite sheep. The Prophet Samuel rebuked Saul and informed him
of God's decision to reject Saul as King of Israel. Saul defended his actions by
re-emphasizing that he spared the Amalekite sheep in order to sacrifice it upon the alter
of God. Samuel countered: "Does the Lord find delight in burnt offerings and
sacrifices, as he does in obedience to his word? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to hearken better than the fat of rams." God's message was clear. Not even the
King of Israel had the right to select the good from the evil of Amalekite. How much more
so then from the evil of Nazism.
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, (74a)
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, (74a)
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Pesachim, (56a)
King Hezekiah was afflicted with a deadly illness (leprosy) as punishment
for remaining unmarried; Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Semachot, (47a).
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evidence acquired by the police as a result of torture would be excluded from presentation
at trial, no matter how critical to the case it may be.
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Even in America, the most disturbing but not surprising expression of
Holocaust apathy was when Democratic Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson complained of
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