Chapter 2: The Nuremberg Code
Members of the military are not shorn of their constitutional rights while they remain in the military service. Blackstone said: ‘. . . he puts not off the citizen when he enters the camp; but it is because he is a citizen, and would wish to continue so, that he makes...
Chapter 1: History, or “I’m from the government… and I’m here to experiment on you!”
“I think it speaks to the undercurrent of distrust of the government and the military,” said Lt. Gen. Ronald R. Blanck, the Surgeon General of the Army, the service that oversees the [anthrax] vaccination program. “Agent Orange. Nuclear tests in the ’50s....
Episode 2: What is Science? And What Isn’t Science?
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck I’m going to begin with two claims about the state of...
Episode 1- Introduction to the House; What is Truth?
An intro to the podcast and a discussion of Truth: What is true? How can you know? What are some of the “truth-seeking human endeavors” that aid us in that search?
Le roi est mort; vive le roi
It was warm for November, at least by the standards of most of the men who had just arrived at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, for the pending Trans-Atlantic voyage.
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