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Also known as Robert George Collier Proctor

British bibliographer and librarian

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  • An Index of German Books1501-1520
  • Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes, and of a residence in Lima, and other parts of Peru, in the years 1823 and 1824. By Robert Proctor, Esq.
  • Citizenship Basics
  • English Basics 2017
  • Bibliographical Essays

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  • 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.
  • We live in a golden age of ignorance, and Trump and are part of that.
  • 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 [Gnadentod] to patients judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination."
  • 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"
  • Nazi philosophers also commonly expressed concerns about cruelty toward animals. In early 1933, Nazi representatives in the Prussian parliament called for legislation banning vivisection.
  • It is certainly true that, in one important sense, the Nazis sought to politicize the sciences.

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Robert Proctor
date of birth
1868-05-13
date of death
1903-09-06
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