http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8194
In this case it was "Reifer's syndrome' which is now more and more called by the term 'reactive arthritis'.
Reifer described the syndrome in 1916. Later he turned into a fanatical nazi.
But he discovered it in 1916. He didn't discover it doing experiments on prisoners of concentration camps. Is this cleansing of history justified? Or just an overly eager example of political correctness?
A Nazi war criminal's contribution to medicine is being slowly written out of the medical record.
In this case it was "Reifer's syndrome' which is now more and more called by the term 'reactive arthritis'.
Reifer described the syndrome in 1916. Later he turned into a fanatical nazi.
But he discovered it in 1916. He didn't discover it doing experiments on prisoners of concentration camps. Is this cleansing of history justified? Or just an overly eager example of political correctness?