The Case of Antoine Prior? and His Therapeutic
Machine: A Scandal in the Politics of Science
Christopher Bird
Forty-four years ago, in 1944, an Italian engineer working as a prisoner and forced laborer for the Germans in the huge submarine base in Bordeaux, approached a French police agent to plead for his life. He would be killed when the Germans left Bordeaux, he said, and since they were by that time obviously losing the war, the day of his execution was at hand...
