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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
796 / 2005-02-15 - Prof. Dietrich V. ENGELHARDT c/o Inst. f. Medizin- u. Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Lübeck.
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Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Professor von Engelhardt, enclosed. As an editor of the “Internationale
Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Ethik der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin” [International Magazine for
History and Ethics of the Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine] and as the editor of an anthology with the
title “Von Freiheit und Verantwortung in der Forschung” [On Freedom and Responsibility in the Field of
Research], we need not explain to you the peculiarity of the continuing suppression of every bit of criticism of a
certain physical theory for almost a hundred years now, or the significance of this swindle of the public as regards
the true status of the theory and the supposed revolutionary findings derived from its results, or of the devastating
consequences for the state of public opinion.”
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797 / 2005-02-15 - Andreas ESCHBACH c/o Literarische Agentur Th. Schlück. Garbsen / Hannover.
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798 / 2005-02-16 - Raimund FELLINGER c/o Suhrkamp Verlag. Frankfurt a. M.
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799 / 2005-02-16 - Joachim FEST c/o Siedler Verlag. München.
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800 / 2005-02-16 - Hersch FISCHLER c/o Eichborn AG. Frankfurt a. M.
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Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Mr. Fischler, enclosed. As an author who has a reputation of asking awkward
questions (taz of 12./13.10.02), and who has already undertaken investigative work on several questions or has
demanded work on them and has issued the slogan “Weiterforschen!” [Go On Researching!], we need not explain
to you the peculiarity of the continuing suppression of every bit of criticism of a certain physical theory for almost
a hundred years now, or the significance of this swindle of the public as regards the true status of the theory and the
supposed revolutionary findings derived from its results, or of the devastating consequences for the state of public
opinion.”
801 / 2005-02-16 - Jörg FRIEDRICH c/o Propyläen Verlag. Berlin.
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Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Mr. Friedrich, enclosed. As an independent historian and journalists who has
committed himself to the topics of reappraisal of the past and who on television is said to have expressed the view
that the breaking of the taboo (“Der Brand”) was intentional (FAZ, 11.11.02), we need not explain to you the
peculiarity of the continuing suppression of every bit of criticism of a certain physical theory for almost a hundred
years now, or the significance of this swindle of the public as regards the true status of the theory and of the
supposed revolutionary findings derived from its results, or of the devastating consequences for the state of public
opinion.”
802 / 2005-02-17 - Prof. Volker GERHARDT, c/o Institut f. Philosophie, Humboldt-Univ.Berlin.
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Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Professor Gerhardt, enclosed. As a member of the Nationaler Ethikrat
[National Ethics Council] and author of a “Plädoyers für Liberalität und Realismus in der Bio-Ethik” [Plea for
Liberalism and Realism in Bio-Ethics] (Tagesspiegel, 7.1.03), we need not explain to you the peculiarity of the
continuing suppression of every bit of criticism of a certain physical theory for almost a hundred years now, or the
significance of this swindle of the public as regards the true status of the theory and the supposed revolutionary
findings derived from its results, or of the devastating consequences for the state of public opinion. Should the longcontinuing
suppression of scientific freedom be no serious problem of “national ethics”, then what could be?
We would simply draw your attention to the fact that the critics denounced the swindle at a very early stage. In
1925 Ernst Gehrcke spoke of mass suggestion, in 1931 Hans Israel and his two co-editors of the small book “100
Autoren gegen Einstein” [100 Authors Against Einstein] denounced the “terror of the Einsteiners”, in 1930 there
was Johan Hjort with his book “Keiserens nye klaer” (1932: “Des Kaisers neue Kleider” [The Emperor’s New
Clothes]), and in the decades since 1960, too, several Anglo-Saxon critics have not been afraid to speak directly of
swindle and nonsense, some of them distinguished authors: e.g. the Nobel-Prize winner Frederick Soddy and one of
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