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You’re moving the goalposts - the subject discussed was the participation of scientists in weapon programs. He might have been a scum (I think it’s trivializing what happened in Germany at that time, I digress), but his participation in the war effort is not unethical in itself. Thousands of kilometers away, other scientists toiled on a weapon that makes all the weapons the Nazis developed seem benign.



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