Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.Has Stein completely lost it?
Crouch: That’s right.
Stein: …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
Zoe Brain had some musings on the Philosophy of Science yesterday, including a clip from Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man" where he talks about the mindset behind the Holocaust - it wasn't science.
