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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
107 / 2002-08-05 - Prof. Reinhard BRANDT c/o Universität, Fachbereich 14. Marburg.
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Extract:
“Dear Professor Brandt
With great interest we have noticed in the press (TAGESSPIEGEL, 19.2.02) how the controversy over the
delivery of the “BESSY gift” to Jordan has been conducted. You are quoted as having said: “The physicist caste is
holding together. They know very well that if an open discussion were to take place in Germany then the greens and
the reds would have to forbid the project immediately.”
Since our research project is dedicated to another case of prevention of discussion in the field of physics, we
allow ourselves to send you a copy of our above-mentioned documentation with the respectful request that you
convince yourself of the correctness of our documentation. We can imagine that you might well find some
interesting parallels. [...)
We respectfully ask you to check, whether you might be prepared to give an impulse for public discussion, or to
pass our documentation on to other committed hands.”
108 / 2002-08-05 - Rainer Maria KIESOW, Member of the “Junge Akademie”,
c/o Max-Planck-Inst. f. Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a. M.
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Extract:
“Dear Mr. Kiesow
With respectful reference to your contribution on the “campus novel” (FAZ, 12.2.02) we allow ourselves to
draw your attention to the above-mentioned documentation. You see the campus novel as a reason to engage in a
“debate on the German university”, which our documentation also seeks to encourage.”
109 / 2002-08-05 - Prof. Wolf LEPENIES, c/o Freie Universität, Fachbereich 06. Berlin.
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Extract:
“Dear Professor Lepenies
We hereby allow ourselves to draw your attention, as a sociologist and science manager, to our abovementioned
documentation. In this we have given proof of the abolition of scientific freedom in the field of
theoretical physics in Germany since approx. 1922. Nor has anything in this situation altered since the coming into
force of the German constitution, in which scientific freedom to research and to teach is anchored as a basic right,
that for theoretical physics, however, exists only on paper.
This state of affairs has so far remained concealed for all science historians, college politicians and journalists.
The abolition of scientific freedom in this branch of physics has had an influence on physics that should not be
underestimated, on the theory of epistemology and on all non-physics specialist fields that have accepted the
supposed findings of physics as a new dogma, without having checked it. How the physicists have meanwhile
treated the public for more than eight decades must surely interest a society that especially at present discusses the
questions of ethics in the natural sciences.
The proof delivered by our documentation possibly has news value for the public, so that the present first
version of the documentation might already legitimately constitute subject matter for general reporting and public
discussion. We respectfully ask you to convince yourself of the soundness of our documentation and, should the
occasion arise, to give an impulse towards public discussion in the context of your journalistic work.
In your committed contribution “Die Faszination des Bösen” [The Fascination of the Evil] (Süddt. Ztg, 8./
9.6.02) you call, as an “alternative project”, for a harking back to the democratization attempts in the Islamic
world, that the western countries have “always only half-heartedly supported”. Exactly such an “alternative
project” is needed in the field of theoretical physics, which without scientific freedom has been paralyzed in
dogmatism and a personality cult for eight decades now. In this field democratic, free critical discussion in the
public is not even “half-heartedly” supported: instead, every bit of criticism is inconsiderately slandered and
suppressed.”
110 / 2002-08-05 - Michael SAILER c/o Reaktor-Sicherheitskommission. Bonn.
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