1. The Need of New Approaches - Kritische Stimmen zur ...

Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
The comparison of the typical national scandals (see above, pp 21-23) had given rise to the interested fact that,
in the milieu of the perpetrators, the scandalous circumstances are already known many years before the press is
permitted to report the matter to the public. With the addressees of our thought experiment and the high number of
visitors to the critical Internet sites, even the relativity catastrophe, since the beginning of the cooperation with our
partners in the years 2004 at the latest, has gradually acquired an informed circle within which those who are
interested can inform themselves.
The simple and fast contact possibilities of the e-mail can integrate the offline world and the online world in a
communication process, as the results of the subsequent enquiries made by Ms. Lopez have shown. Our “Open
Letters” with accompanying CD-ROM sent by the yellow post in the offline world were normally only responded to
after a subsequent enquiry per e-mail, and the response then also came by e-mail. The electronic medium has - for
whatever reason - provoked and given rise to answers that the yellow snail-mail could not have achieved. Perhaps
the image of the e-mail as the medium for progressive and important people has played a provoking role here.
Anyone who still sends a letter on paper with postage stamps can only be hopelessly old-fashioned, old and
unimportant. Without our publicly identified partners with e-mail addresses our research project would look very
old-fashioned!
The sending of publications on CD-ROM by our project as a gift and the offer of the free downloads from the
Internet sites of our partners and the other supporters represent a doubling of the offer. We may perhaps, sometime
in the future, be able to discontinue our CD-ROM shipments and instead refer to the download option for our
publications from the Internet.
With the activities in both “worlds” our project, together with our partners, has carried the existence of the
criticism of the theory further into the heart of society than ever was the case prior to 2001. For the first time a
Federal Minister took official notice, in 2006, of the existence of the criticism. And in 2007, for the first time, an
academic institution was assigned to respond to the criticism. Despite these successes, one thing remains to be
explained: Why are almost all of the addressees of our thought experiment (apart from the 9 exceptions mentioned
above) in spectacular silence?
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