Elliot

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Dec 30, 2025 06:51AM

I know what you’d say to me, so I’m saying it back to you, in case you need to hear it.’

“(This should go without saying, but given how charged this topic is, it’s worth being explicit: the Africans were the victims here, not the white European.)”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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“one bioethicist argued, “Implied consent is no consent at all.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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“Smeathman’s life is worth examining, because it sheds light on an aspect of early science that most historians overlook—how intertwined science and slavery were.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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“As one historian noted, doctors “joined the Nazi party earlier and in greater numbers than any other professional group.” As healers, they especially relished Nazi rhetoric about “curing” society’s ills and eliminating “cancerous” Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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“In a callous response to this complaint, one politician argued that supplying bodies for research was the least the poor could do. After all, look at all the free meals and medical care they’d enjoyed on the public dime during their lives.”
― Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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