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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
5 / 2001-12-13 - Magazine GEGENWORTE, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akad. d. Wiss.,
President Prof. Dieter Simon, Berlin, Manuscript Print 2001 (Copy No.: 27)
Extract:
“Dear Mr. President
Your magazine “Gegenworte” having concerned itself with the matter of “Lies and Deception in Science” in
issue 2, though unfortunately addressing only the trifling examples of everyday lies, we allow ourselves to draw
your attention to the above-mentioned documentation, which presents a topic of other dimensions, against which
the celebrated principles of scientific ethics could be tested.”
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6 / 2001-12-13 - Prof. Peter GLOTZ, c/o Inst. f. Medien- u. Kommunikationsmanagement, St. Gallen
(Switzerland), Manuscript Print 2001 (Copy No.: 29)
7 / 2001-12-13 - NIEDERSÄCHSISCHE STAATS- U. UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Manuscript Section, Göttingen,
Manuscript Print 2001 (Copy No.: 30)
8 / 2001-12-13 - NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG, Editorial Office, Zürich,
Manuscript Print 2001 (Copy No.: 22)
9 / 2001-12-13 - P. M. PETER MOOSLEITNERS INTERESSANTES MAGAZIN, Editorial Office, München,
Manuscript Print 2001 (Copy No.: 21)
Extract:
“Dear Sir/Madam
In view of the commitment of your magazine to an open dialogue in theoretical physics and thereby for
scientific freedom in the Federal Republic of Germany, as demonstrated by your discussion of the book by G.
Galeczki and P. Marquardt, we hereby allow ourselves to draw your attention to our above-mentioned documentation,
which proves the abolition of scientific freedom in the field of theoretical physics since approx. 1922. Nothing in
this situation has altered since the coming into force of the German Constitution, in which scientific freedom to
research and to teach is, after all, supposedly established as a basic right.”
10 / 2001-12-13 - PROFIL. Independent News Magazine. Editorial Office. Wien.
Manuscript Print 2001 (Copy No.: 20)
11 / 2001-12-13 - Prof. Jan Philipp REEMTSMA, c/o Stiftung Hamburger Institut f. Sozialforschung, Hamburg,
Manuscript Print 2001 (Copy No.: 26)
Extract:
“Dear Professor Reemtsma
We hereby allow ourselves to draw your attention to our above-mentioned documentation, which presents the
scientific and political conditions existing in the field of theoretical physics, particularly in Germany since 1922.
These academic conditions do not as yet appear to have been noticed by any physicist, science historian or science
sociologist, so that our documentation could well have news value for the public.
We respectfully request that you check the soundness of our documentation and, in the event of a positive result,
that you lend your support to an open discussion and to the restoration of scientific freedom in the field of
theoretical physics. This scientific freedom should, by the way, have been a basic right in the Federal Republic of
Germany since the coming into force of the German Constitution, though for physics this holds only on paper. The
situation in the other western countries is not much different. For science sociology and science history, this opens
up a highly interesting field of research, into why this situation has occurred and who is historically and currently
responsible for it.”
12 / 2001-12-13 - Prof. Peter SLOTERDIJK, c/o Staatl. Hochschule f. Gestaltung, Karlsruhe,
Manuscript Print (Copy No.: 31)
13 / 2001-12-13 - DER SPIEGEL. News Magazine. Editorial Office. Hamburg.
Manuscript Print (Copy No.: 14)
Extract:
“Dear Sir/Madam
Following various contributions in which you have repeatedly praised the great achievements of the theories of
relativity, we allow ourselves to draw your attention to our above-mentioned documentation, which might possibly
have news value for the public, in which case it would constitute legitimate subject matter for reporting in a News
Magazine.
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