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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
therefore may point out the following, which partially derives logically
from what has been presented up to now:
It is the right and the duty of the scientist to make the results of his
research available to:
1. the scientific community;
2. society at large.
This obligation arises in turn from the obligation
– to expose the work to critique;
– to assume accountability for one’s activities;
– to inform society at large about new discoveries.
This right includes publication
a) of the scientific work itself;
b) of fact-oriented popularized presentation of the same for the information
of non-scientists and students;
c) of fact-oriented promotion for a) and b) above in order to announce
and disseminate.
Considered formally, publications under b) and c) above are not, or
only under certain conditions, scientific in nature, but they are still pivotal
for science. If the right of publication is restricted, then does not
only the indispensable communication among scientists and between
scientists and society collapse, but science itself comes to a standstill.
This also has drastic disadvantageous effects for our modern society
based on the division of labor, which depends on science and on communicating
with it.
I mention this here also because I am standing before this Court not
only because of the scientific works I have written, published or distributed,
but also because of advertising brochures and flyers with which I
have advertized my products. I would never claim that such material
meets the standards of scientific writings. They cannot and they should
not do that. But as I explained above, they must still enjoy the protection
of freedom of science, because they serve science, for without public
announcement of their existence and results, science cannot continue
to exist.
After all, science thrives primarily by public critical discussion, and
it dies, if that discussion is forbidden. In this sense I will now conclude
my presentations on science and its nature by once more quoting Karl
Popper: 123
123 Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge, op. cit. (note 67), p. 22.
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