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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
the small fact that treatment practices on the battlefield often lead to major advances in treatment in Casualty, Trauma for one.
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This argument has been advanced at least since Hippocrates: "He who would become a surgeon should find an army and follow it." It's also worth arguing that advances in aircraft design and safety are accelerated by a good old fashioned knock-down, drag-out war.
But in all cases of war acting as an accelerant to scientific and technological development, lots of questions go begging for answers. Not the least is: "Is it worth tens of millions of deaths?"
I'm sure that most of us are aware of the use of animals for testing drugs. And many are aware that alternatives are available, and are being introduced.
What irks me is that, with our seemingly unlimited inventive capacity, we still use barbaric methods.
Oh, and Churchill liked pigs.
