Historians find that the New England Journal of Medicine ignored Nazi atrocities
A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the oldest and most respected publications for medical research, criticizes the journal for paying only “superficial and idiosyncratic attention” to the atrocities perpetrated in the name of medical science by the Nazis.The magazine was "an exception in its sporadic coverage of the rise of Nazi Germany," wrote the article's authors, Allan Brandt and Joelle Abi-Rached, both medical historians at Harvard. Often, the paper simply ignored the Nazis' medical depredations, such as the horrific experiments conducted on twins at Auschwitz, which were largely based on Adolf Hitler's spurious "racial science."By contrast, two other major scientific journals – Science and Journal of the American Medical Association – covered th...