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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 November 2013 04:21:53AM *  1 point [-]

If we ever pass up a chance to literally hold one child's face to a fire and end malaria, we have screwed up.

In another comment James A. Donald suggests a way torturing children could actually help cure malaria:

To cure malaria, we really need to experiment on people. For some experiments, obtaining volunteers is likely to be difficult, and if one experimented on non volunteering adults, they would probably create very severe difficulties. Female children old enough to have competent immune systems, but no older, would be ideal.

Would you be willing to endorse this proposal? If not, why not?