r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petaaahhh???

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 2d ago

OLLIE HERE.

JAPAN HAD A TERRIBLE MEDICAL UNIT IN WW2 CALLED UNIT 731.

THEY MADE THE NAZIS LOOK TAME.

THEY FROZE PRISONERS OF WAR INTO HUMAN POPSICALS AND TREATED THEN FROM FROSTBITE.

IT WAS PURE EVIL AND HAS SAVED MANY LIVES.

OLLIE OUT

u/magotartufo 2d ago

Saved many lives ? Man if it did I would like sources because the methodology seemed bunk af, most of what they found out was already pretty well documented through much more ethical means.

u/BraveNemesis 2d ago edited 2d ago

Sure, plenty of documentation about the condition itself, but not on treating it, not until then. You should do a deep dive into wartime inventions, if you can stomach it.

Edit: Im super autistic, so if this came across rude, that was not my intention. I genuinely find these kinds of morbidly interesting stories fascinating, as long as I have a degree of separation.

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u/theartificialkid 2d ago

Historian Till Winfried Bärnighausen criticized the overall lack of scientific rigor in many of Unit 731's experiments, but he noted some exceptions. He pointed to the mustard gas, freezing, and tuberculosis experiments as having a reliable and valid data collection process, suggesting they were conducted with greater rigor.[43]

That sounds like they did produce some useful data on effects of cold on the human body.

u/BraveNemesis 1d ago

Hell yeah, stuff to read!