Sublime

In a tragic coda to this early story of eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was still enmeshed in the controversy over eugenics as recently as January 2019, this time through the disgraceful racist utterances of Nobel laureate James D. Watson, cofounder of the DNA double helix and one of the laboratory’s longtime fellows, whom they stripped of

Jacob Haas at Princeton’s Eviction Lab was the lead researcher for this book. Thank you, Jacob, for your obsession with the fine print and for your tirelessness and unflappability.

In 1934, the Third Reich sterilized at least fifty-six thousand people, one out of every twelve hundred Germans. By the end of the war, three hundred seventy-five thousand Germans had been sterilized.

T4 Program. This program specifically targeted for extermination adults considered abnormal and disabled, including those diagnosed with such conditions as epilepsy, physical malformation, insanity, feeblemindedness, depression, and alcoholism.

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, the book for which Arendt is best remembered.

La lecture attentive d’un livre aussi bouleversant et atroce que Le Viol de Nankin, d’Iris Chang90, qui décrit la violente destruction de la ville chinoise par l’envahisseur japonais, désenchanterait même le plus convaincu des romantiques. Et moins on en dit sur l’Unité 731, une unité de recherche secrète japonaise spécialisée dans la guerre bactér

In his role as the originator of the practice of vaccination, Edward Jenner is regarded by the medical establishment as a ‘hero’; but he is a false hero and his accolades are undeserved. Although referred to as a physician, it is documented that he did not study for or pass the medical examinations that would have been necessary for him to qualify

the mentally ill had to be quarantined and even exterminated.