I can't imagine a good scientist being a traditionalist. Traditionalism avidly defends superstition, something that scientists despise. Nationalists? They will sacrifice nationalism for intellectual freedom, although they might be patriots if they see their country and its intellectual freedom at risk. They might have socialist or libertarian tendencies, but in between those on the pentagon is the zone of counterculture.
I can imagine physicians going to extremes, like Zawahiri (an associate of Osama bin Laden), Guevara (Castro), and of course so horrible a person as Fritz "Doctor Death" Klein, Nazi physician at Auschwitz, who said while on trial for atrocities :
My Hippocratic oath tells me to cut a gangrenous appendix out of the human body. The Jews are the gangrenous appendix of mankind. That's why I cut them out."[2]
I can imagine physicians going to extremes, like Zawahiri (an associate of Osama bin Laden), Guevara (Castro), and of course so horrible a person as Fritz "Doctor Death" Klein, Nazi physician at Auschwitz, who said while on trial for atrocities :
My Hippocratic oath tells me to cut a gangrenous appendix out of the human body. The Jews are the gangrenous appendix of mankind. That's why I cut them out."[2]
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.