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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
it should be true. (The fact that we are unable to conceive of the falsity
of a statement is in many cases only a reason for suspecting that
our power of imagination is deficient or undeveloped.) It is one of
the gravest mistakes if a philosophy ever offers self-evidence as an
argument in favour of the truth of a sentence.”
“for there is no doubt that we are all suffering under our own
system of prejudices […]; that we all take many things as selfevident,
that we accept them uncritically and even with the naïve and
cocksure belief that criticism is quite unnecessary; and scientists are
no exceptions to this rule, even though they may have superficially
purged themselves from some of their prejudices in their particular
field.” 89
“Is it not a common experience that those who are most convinced
of having got rid of their prejudices are most prejudiced?” 90
“Thus we do not, in general, see the truth when we are most convinced
that we see it;” 91
Now an interesting and at once important question:
Who is in our case the one who is most fanatically convinced to possess
the truth? In order to find this out, a tolerance test needs to be
made:
Who forbids whom to speak?
Who puts whom into prison?
Who burns whose books?
I sincerely wish that the answer to these questions were “no one.” It
is obvious that the revisionists are not forbidding anybody to speak and
not arresting anybody or burning anybody’s books. Whether in future
this can be said about the Federal Republic of Germany depends in
large part on the decision of this Court
The more fanatically we believe in the truth of our prejudices, the
more we tend to immunize them from attempts to disprove them. For
this reason, attempts at immunization are a good indicator of unscientific
dogmatism.
In order to illustrate how theories can be immunized, I shall give two
examples from everyday life, so to say:
89 Ibid., p. 217.
90 Ibid., p. 223.
91 Ibid., pp. 390f.
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