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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
- Robert N. Proctor

The rejection of concern for practical goals expressed in the German Society for Sociology's founding charter represented the culmination of a debate in the Social Policy Association, the so-called Werturteilsstreit, in which a group of young political economists, including, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber, attacked the older generation of political economists for mixing facts and values, science and politics.
- Robert N. Proctor

The rejection of concern for practical goals expressed in the German Society for Sociology's founding charter represented the culmination of a debate in the Social Policy Association, the so-called Werturteilsstreit, in which a group of young political economists, including, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber, attacked the older generation of political economists for mixing facts and values, science and politics.
- Robert N. Proctor

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 to patients judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination.
- Robert N. Proctor

Nazi philosophers also commonly expressed concerns about cruelty toward animals. In early 1933, Nazi representatives in the Prussian parliament called for legislation banning vivisection.
- Robert N. Proctor

By contrast with diamonds or asbestos or granite or the minerals we burn for fuel, the lowly agate is the victim of scientific disinterest, the same kinds of structured apathy I have elsewhere called 'the social construction of ignorance.' Agates seem to fall outside the orbit of geological knowledge, and therefore tend to be regarded — if at all — as geological accidents or oddities not really deserving systematic study.
- Robert N. Proctor