• wewbull
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    1 month ago

    Not so much that period, but the late 30s - early 40s.

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      1 month ago

      That was the era of more horrifying and particularly bad science. The 50s though, that’s the era that brought rules like “you have to provide an honest explanation of what you’re testing to human test subjects” and no they didn’t just think it up as a good rule to have out of the blue.