re: #350 The Sanity Inspector

Did you read the entire essay? Because it does discuss the abuse of science from an “intellectual” viewpoint:

As we move onward through history, we can begin to see a misguided association between science and ruthlessness or dehumanization. The strongest example of this would have to be the National-Socialists’ pseudo-scientific justifications of racism and genocide, the butcher-like finesse of Hauptsturmfhrer-SS Dr. Josef Mengele playing no small part in connecting inhuman atrocity with a cold, calculating indifference to human suffering. Even in the realm of dictatorial pseudo-Communism, it could be said Stalin dehumanized his own select list of “undesirables” by some inexplicable, cold scientific process.