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Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY<br />

tion logically impossibly, is grossly unscientific, as it is thusly immunized<br />

against any attempt at refutation.<br />

It therefore can, indeed it has to be concluded that the following is<br />

the reason why the expert witness has not investigated these essential<br />

aspects of the nature of science (or maybe he is not even aware of<br />

them?): because he himself is part of this established unscientific attitude.<br />

Finally one would have wished that the expert witness had given his<br />

expert report a systematic structure – this, too, is a hallmark of science!<br />

– for instance by initially explaining in a substantiated way, which criteria<br />

of the nature of science he considers relevant, in order to then use<br />

them as a yardstick to assess the individual contributions of the book at<br />

issue.<br />

C. Conclusions<br />

The expert witness<br />

– has essentially missed the topic of his assignment for an expert report,<br />

because some 2 /3 of his expert report do not address the topic of<br />

his assignment;<br />

– has transgressed the area of competence as an expert by commenting<br />

on topics for which he is not an expert according to his own statements<br />

or which even originate from utterly foreign disciplines;<br />

– has not performed his assignment professionally by omitting essential<br />

aspects of his assignment for an expert report – various criteria<br />

of the nature of science – and by repeatedly and at times in a massive<br />

way violating scientific principles himself.<br />

Hence both the expert report and the expert witness have to be rejected<br />

as utterly unsuitable pieces of evidence.<br />

<strong>Germar</strong> <strong>Rudolf</strong>, Heidelberg, 24 February 2007<br />

Postscriptum<br />

The above verdict is harsh. It may even be unfair, for Prof. Dr. Ernst<br />

Nolte did not write his expert assessment of “my” book for the isolated<br />

use of a few judges looking for an expert opinion on the nature of science<br />

and how my book fits into it. Prof. Nolte was well aware that his<br />

expert report would eventually end up in the public domain, and that<br />

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