Robert N. Proctor

"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 objecti…"

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

"The case of Otto Neurath, first author of the Vienna Circle's manifesto, is a revealing one. In the years before the First World War, the young Austrian economist became interested in eugenics, transl…"

"Why do we know what we know and why don't we know what we don't know? What should we know and what shouldn't we know? How might we know differently?"

"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 …"

"We live in a golden age of ignorance, and Trump and are part of that."

"It is certainly true that, in one important sense, the Nazis sought to politicize the sciences."

"The ideal of value neutrality is not a single notion, but has arisen in the course of protracted struggles over the place that science should have in society."