THE SLIDE TO AUSCHWITZ By: C. Everett Koop, M.D. In July the City Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to petition Harvard University to temporarily halt the construction of a half million dollar laboratory for specialized genetics research. This intervention of the town in the affairs of the University was not just the hysterical reaction of ignorant people to the misunderstood pursuits of a scientific faculty. Rather, it had been initiated and pushed by distinguished scholars on the Harvard faculty. These individuals were deeply concerned with the newly acquired power in biology to alter the genes of living organisms and create...