Eduard Pernkopf and the Ethics of Science from Holocausts

A tempest has arisen recently in the wake of the videos documenting the sale of body parts of aborted children to scientists for use in research. Dr. Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon who is running for the Republican nomination for president, is a strong pro-life advocate. However, recently it has become clear that Dr. Carson used human fetal tissue obtained from abortions in some of his research a couple of decades ago.

This raises quite real ethical questions. There's a famous parallel...