Medical information from Nazi atrocities transgresses the Nuremberg Code

We felt compelled to respond to your article on medical information that comes from Nazi atrocities,1 in which Mackinnon tries to justify the use of an atlas of human anatomy, edited by Eduard Pernkopf, based on the systematic dissection of bodies of Holocaust victims. To make it worse, Pernkopf and his chief collaborators were all committed Nazis, to the …