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"We live in a golden age of ignorance, and Trump and are part of that."
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Robert N. ProctorIt is certainly true that, in one important sense, the Nazis sought to — Robert N. Proctor
"It is certainly true that, in one important sense, the Nazis sought to politicize the sciences."
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Robert N. Proctor
Robert N. Proctor
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Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry.
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"The appropriate critique of [...] sciences is not that they are not "objective" but that they are partial, or narrow, or directed towards ends which one opposes. In general, knowledge is no less objective (that is true, or reliable) being in the service of interests."
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"Why do we know what we know and why dont we know what we dont know? What should we know and what shouldnt we know? How might we know differently?"
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"In March 1937 the reported on the case of a farmer who had shot to death his sleeping son because the child was "mentally ill in a manner that threatened society"
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"Nazi philosophers also commonly expressed concerns about cruelty toward animals. In early 1933, Nazi representatives in the Prussian parliament called for legislation banning vivisection."
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"In early October of 1939, designated by the government as the year of "the duty to be healthy," Hitler authored a secret memo certifying that "Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr Brandt are hereby commissioned to allow certain specified doctors to grant a mercy death [Gnadentod] to patients judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination."
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