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Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology | Lex Fridman Podcast #268

Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology | Lex Fridman Podcast #268

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Nazi War on Cancer

Robert Proctor

“you uh also wrote the book titled the nazi war on cancer right what is the main storyline and thesis of this book”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

Robert Proctor

“you are edited a book titled agnetology this is an interesting term so you mentioned it earlier the making and unmaking of ignorance”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guest

Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge

Robert Proctor

“30 years ago you wrote the value free science book purity and power and modern knowledge which is interesting that you kind of what you were describing then”— Lex Fridman

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferencedISBN verified

How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff

“they hire the guy daryl huff who wrote how to lie with statistics the best-selling statistics book in the history of the world”— guest
BookReferenced

How to Lie About Smoking with Statistics

Darrell Huff (inferred)

“they paid him to write a book called how to lie about smoking with statistics now that was never published”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler (inferred)

“i've been trying to get to minecomp and you know throughout his history has been taken down and up it actually was taken down from amazon”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx (inferred)

“two-thirds of the things that marx calls for in the communist manifesto are already just part of the liberal state”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Loves of the Plants

Erasmus Darwin (inferred)

“the last original contribution to science written entirely in the form of a poem is buu bufol's loves of the plants”— guest
MediaReferenced

Peaky Blinders

BBC (inferred)

“but i mean look at peaky blinders look at uh you know in any of the modern series now it's pretty much a one non-stop”— guest
MediaReferenced

Silicon Valley

HBO (inferred)

“there's a whole i think silicon valley episode about something like that where the three three comma club you know asshole billionaire is trying to find his old uh laptop”— guest