Is science destroying the way we live?

Yes those atrocities did happen but ethics regulations have come a long way as well. I'm not saying ethics are not a big deal. They are. Many of the experiments you talk about were just horrendous, yes, but scientists in stem cell research are not trying to clone entire human beings. There may be a possibility of being able to achieve it yes...but the vast, vast majority of researchers are not aiming to realize that possibility. Scientists are human too, and ethics is heavily emphasized nowadays.

I wasn't implying that you don't see ethics as an issue, it's just worrisome that some well-trained psycho like Ted Kahzynski might set up base in Africa and do these sorts of things. And if he's captured after like 20 years, he might receive maximum punishment... or immunity + cash for the research. There are some dark things in every country's past. So what happens if the equivalent of the Theory of Relativity is discovered, and it was discovered over 400 children's corpses? X_X