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This article claims that only a single anatomist, out of all 38 schools of anatomy in the Third Reich, left the field because of obviously executed criminals/dissidents showing up on dissection tables.

Perhaps the USA and the NSA are lucky that they've had 4 or 5 public dissidents/whistleblowers. Perhaps the usual response to immoral or unethical government or corporate actions is to just live with them.

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Even this is story is related to the NSA? Jeez.

I think there have been experiments that verify this fact: people are very susceptible to pressure, both from authority and peers, and will generally conform. Kind of scary when you think about it: even the anti-government movements today stem from a me-too groupism (tea party) and an authority trying to usurp another (right wingers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

This is especially interesting when combined with this article http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/world/middleeast/to-shape-... about textbooks for children. It's unbelievable to see how humans can be manipulated either as innocent children or even as highly educated doctors.

I'll just note that the US is a world leader in this space, something the article above failed to recognize: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/education/creationists-on-...

I would hardly say that article provides evidence of "being a world leader". Curriculum selection is a highly political process across the entire country. More generally school boards often attempt to engage in their own social engineering of children to suit their own views.

Its not like any of these creationist measures ever survive the judicial system.

The Tea Party isn't anti-government, it just as a very particular role of what government should do. E.g., Tea Party groups are very much for big, active government when it comes to excluding foreigners.

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