Yet you still can't show how she might have developed outside of Cerberus.
Of course, when your methods require techniques that 1) no ethical organization would ever use, and 2) result in someone who rejects any futher association with you, the value of that research is questionable at best.
No, I can't, nor am I trying too. I do know that we have information that Cerberus made her more powerful than she would have been if her skills were left un-augmented.
I don't care what any ethical organization would do. If their ethical techniques don't provide the same results as the unethical ones, then I question their efficiency and legitimacy.
Not if she procreates and produces further empowered biotic children. The effects are already in place. Her skills and talent are now able to be used decisively by humanity, as shown in the war.
There is no evidence that anyone ever voluntarily left Cerberus, without having to go into hiding or change their identity. Throughout the series, we are shown plenty of evidence to the contrary - including evidence that operatives are implanted with devices capable of terminating them.
That's not my argument. My argument is that Cerberus operatives and scientists are not 'disposed of' whenever they accomplish a mission. Which was your statement. And it is incorrect. As well, this is another area that is never delved into. We never see if any member of Cerberus retires or tries to leave amicably. Shepard, in the Control ending, is the closest you could potentially get to that. He can leave Cerberus under amicable terms.
No, I think it's more when you try to screw them or leave with the intent to inform or stop helping them. I don't think Cerberus is going to kill the person who says 'it's been great, but I think I want to retire and go start a nursery.' You have only a select few cases under some pretty weighted circumstances to support your position. To take a quote of yours, you have no control group. You have no person who left Cerberus on good terms. Just people who fled after sabotaging plans and experiments.
"They took the best and brightest scientists, ultimately disposing of them when they finished their Cerberus project (or tried to quit)."
Okay, I'll make a minor modification.
"They took the best and brightest scientists, ultimately trying to dispose of them when they finished their Cerberus project (or tried to quit)."
This is ME3 Cerberus, not the organization prior to ME3. Indoctrination does some rather bizarre things. We have no information prior to these events, leaving your judgement suspect. Especially since the experiments in question were related to a very specific area of study.
Some were terminated upon project completion, others when they tried to quit Cerberus. Some did manage a successful escape and went into hiding.
You'll need to show a scientist who successfully resigned from Cerberus without needing to escape or go into hiding in order to prove my statement incorrect.
I need not prove your statement incorrect, you must first prove it correct. You have as much ignorance on this as I do or anyone else, yet you're drawing a conclusion that everyone who ever tried to leave the organization is killed. And you're taking it a step farther, stating that upon completion of a goal, Cerberus terminates every agent and every asset in every circumstance, and has done so throughout their entire history. You are incorrect. Otherwise, as I said, Miranda, Dr. Cole, and doubtless hundreds or thousands of other scientists and researchers and operatives would have been terminated after their first mission.
Cerberus does a pretty good job of making themselves look bad.
And no, I'm not posturing. I'm genuinely trying to figure out what they accomplished that might be useful for humanity - aside from resurrecting Shepard and providing the resources & intel to combat the collectors, which were obviously major contributions.
I think people are too caught up in what looks good and bad to actually discern what is good and bad. I'd go so far as to say that most people can't tell the difference.
Yes, you are. They created a means of overcoming indoctrination. This is what led them to the conclusion that the Crucible could be used to induce control. That's a pretty big contribution. They created a means of controlling the Geth with Overlord. They were involved with a project to utilize thorian creepers as labor-saving devices and shock troops, a project whose failure was completely beyond their ability to control. They stopped a planned Batarian assassination of the Council using a bioweapon. They proto-typed and field tested the M-44, which is rather useful. Jack's entire childhood may have been a prototype for Project Phoenix, which is actually rather successful given how they created powerful biotic soldiers. They created a means of disrupting biotic powers. They were able to create a means of creating and controlling adjutants, which could have been a valuable addition to the battlefield.
If any of these were put into place by the alliance, they would have immeasureably helped the war effort.