> Progress on that front is possible but unlikely in this century.
I agree in a way, but every time this comes up I point out that in East Germany they would have pounced on this technique and built a secret base in the wilderness to work on it. I say East Germany because it is a matter of historical record, what they put their athletes through.
So I'm saying that progress on that front is possible but unlikely in this country, where we consider a major ethical breach to be something to be avoided entirely, not just hidden.
You're talking about a country which prepared to biowarfare by dropping bacteria on its own civilian population (including San Francisco Bay Area[0]) to see what happens, without telling anyone. A country that has its own movie industry creating story after story of its military experimenting on people, to the point it's pretty much became a trope.
So no, I wouldn't be so sure this couldn't in principle happen in the US of A.
I agree in a way, but every time this comes up I point out that in East Germany they would have pounced on this technique and built a secret base in the wilderness to work on it. I say East Germany because it is a matter of historical record, what they put their athletes through.
So I'm saying that progress on that front is possible but unlikely in this country, where we consider a major ethical breach to be something to be avoided entirely, not just hidden.