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Program 114: Science: For Truth or Good? - I

The Center's Scott Buchanan interviews Helmut Krauch of the Heidelberg Institute, who is the head of a group of German scientists seeking a policy to direct all scientific research to the service of human welfare, in the wake of the Nazi's misuse of scientific research. While sympathetic to the goal, Professor Buchanan is wary of the implications for freedom and truth. Nov. 27, 1963. [CSDI program number 114; UCSB tape number A7671/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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