Mostly they thought they were being inefficient. The medical knowledge gained from the Nazis were substantial and boosted medical research over 100 years from what it would have taken but the Japanese thought it could have been so much more because of just how many subjects they had to work on at a time compared to how few were being actually experimented on or just straight up executed. In a numbers kinda fucked up way they weren't wrong but damn thats scary.
As the answer in the link states, the premises of many of the experiments were flawed due to being based in Nazi race science and the experimental design and analysis of the results were also flawed
Correct. They were just horrendous crimes against humanity. At least one project wasn't entirely though and the ethical discussions around the use of their results is interesting: The Dachau Hypothermia Experiments (The New England Journal of Medicine)
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u/INeedADifferent 2d ago
Funnily enough, the Japanese thought the same of what the Nazi were doing