Dear Colleagues, Louis Schmier wrote: > > > Uncontrolled science, like anything that is uncontrolled and carried > to its extreme, is a bad that often outweighs its good. Like it or > not, the likes of Mengele and those involved in the T-4 project and > those engaged in the high altitude experiments and those engaged in > medical experiments said justified themselves by arguing that "in the > name of science" created its own moral and ethical code, and that the > quest for knowledge about life justifies the means even if it means > taking life. >
Blaming science for the actions of individuals (e.g., Mengele, Rascher, Clauberg, Oberhauser, etc.) guided by a destructive, and non-scientific, ideology (racial hygiene) is like blaming medicine should a drug be used to kill as opposed to heal. We would do better to focus our attention on understanding the development and sustainability of malevolent ideologies (e.g., religious, political, pseudo-scientific, etc.) and their role in destructive aggression than simply looking for oversimplified, and largely politicized, answers. To Peace, Linda -- Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. Professor, Psychology and International Human Rights Past-President, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, & Violence (Div. 48, APA) <http://www.peacepsych.org> Steering Committee, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) <http://www.psysr.org> Secretary, Raphael Lemkin Award Committee, Institute for the Study of Genocide <http://www.instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org/> Webster University 470 East Lockwood St. Louis, MO 63119 Main Webpage: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ <http://www.webster.edu/%7Ewoolflm/> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's (and woman's) best friend. . . . Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
