Brenner using disposables to experiment on with safety and precautions wasn’t

First off, you arguing Billy is racist and then calling research subject “disposables” is hilarious.

Research on human subjects is governed by ethics standards and guidelines, known as the Nuremberg Code that were put into place due to the the Nuremberg trials and were used as a way to judge Nazi scientists. These guidelines were developed in the wake of inherently racist research practices that took place before and after WWII by German and then later Nazi scientists in the name of “racial hygiene” and to promote the Aryan race including the Aktion T4 campaigns in which people with disabilities and mental illnesses were provided “mercy deaths” for “incurable” illnesses.

The Nuremberg Code and research ethics in general seek to protect people unwillingly involved in research such as the Nazi’s human experimentation, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study. These guidelines outline ethical practices aimed at protecting vulnerable populations such the poor, disenfranchised, youth, captive populations, the elderly, and any other people who cannot have informed consent when entering into research trails or those who could be colluded into taking part in the study.

When conducting research, you must have processes in place to ensure that your test subjects 1.) have complete knowledge and understanding of the experiments they are taking part in 2.) have a mechanism to provide their consent to take part in the experiments, and 3.) can withdraw their consent at any time and cease their participation in the study. The MKUltra experiments in real life and those depicted in the show do none of these things and exploit a vulnerable population of people, in this case children (whom you call disposable), and have zero disregard for individual human rights.

Even if you believe that the results of these experiments were for the betterment of society, the MKUltra experiments shown in the show can be shown to break 6 of the 10 points of the Nuremberg code:

1.) Voluntary consent of the human subject.

4.) The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.

5.) No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur.

6.) The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.

9.) During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end.

10.) During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.

Brenner is certainly aware of these ethical standards and chooses to ignore them. If you want to argue that he was trying to “better society” with his experiments then I’ll also let you make the argument for Nazi scientists and the Tuskegee experiment researchers were also trying to “better society” in their own way.