In the article titled "Medical Science Under Dictatorship" printed in the July 14, 1949 New England Journal of Medicine, author Leo Alexander, M.D. noted that "[s]cience under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy of the dictatorship." Under the Nazi regime, medical science involved the "mass extermination of the chronically sick in the interest of saving 'useless' expenses to the community as a whole." Moreover, anyone considered "socially disturbing" or those "considered disloyal within the ruling group" were slated for extermination. After 1940 extermination of the physically and socially unfit was so matter-of-fact that it barely merited comment in German medical journals. But how did such events get past the lay people? Motion pictures and films were used to propagandize "gentle euthanasia." A widely used high-school mathematics text created scenarios that dealt with the cost of...(Read Full Article)