continued: “While we are pussyfooting around,” the Nazis were accomplishing great things. Dr. Joseph DeJarnette (who had testified in the Carrie Buck case) exclaimed that the “Germans are beating us at our own game!” (quotes in Spiro 2009, 364). Laughlin told Grant that “he was thrilled that the speeches of Nazi leaders … ‘sound exactly as though spoken by a perfectly good American eugenist,’ but he admitted that he was jealous that he and Grant were only humble researchers,” while in the German dictatorship, scientists were actually getting things done (quoted in Spiro 2009, 364).
