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remain anonymous until the freedom of science and research in theoretical physics will have been reestablished in
the European countries. Moreover we don‘t wish to give the relativists a chance to deviate the discussion about the
criticism of relativity from the theory to the critics‘ persons - which is their favoured strategy since 1922.
In Germany today our “Grundgesetz” [Constitution] since 1949 guarantees the freedom of science and research
- but this fundamental right practically has been abolished for theoretical physics.
The abolition of the freedom of research and academic teaching in theoretical physics has happened not only in
Germany since 1922 but more or less in all Western countries at different periods - and, remarkably, strange and
unlikely as it sounds, nobody in the sciences and the history of sciences and no investigative journal or journalist
seems to have noticed anything about it for 80 years until today! We think we can claim to have discovered and
brought to the public attention a mystery of the history of science on an international scale.
Therefore we have started the project of documentation of all criticism of the two theories of relativity since the
beginning in 1905 until today, originating from all countries and written in all languages. The enclosed version 1.1
is the first printout of only a first portion of about 2900 units of documentation in a very preliminary phase of the
project but already useful for the public because for the first time the public and the academic research receive an
information which until now has been successfully hidden through the ingenious manipulations by the scientific
community.
We ask you kindly to examine our documentation of the published criticism, and if your examination proves the
documentation to be well founded to present the information to the public and invite to a free discussion.
Relativistic physics then will have the chance to answer the criticism - the sheer existence of which has been denied
by the physicists and therefore never has been answered - and to explain why for 80 years they have suppressed and
calumniated the persons and the publications which have dared to criticize.
We are hopeful that the sociology of science can be an impartial agent of freedom and democratic rules in the
sciences as you have demonstrated in your publication, together with Trevor Pinch, “The Golem - What you should
know about science”. We are very delighted and thankful to have known your book, and we appreciate very much
the second edition with the report about the three-day „workshop“ on relativity.
We don‘t need to explain why we present our documentation to you and your School of Social Sciences. Please,
give notice of our documentation and of this letter to Trevor Pinch.”
2012
122 / 2002-08-25 - THE INDEPENDENT, Literary Editor. London
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 84)
123 / 2002-08-25 - NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Presidential Office, Washington, DC.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 90)
124 / 2002-08-25 - THE TIMES, Editorial Office. London.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 86)
125 / 2002-08-25 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Acquisitions Department. Washington, DC.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 89)
126 / 2002-08-26 - HARPER’S MAGAZINE, Editorial Office. New York, NY.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 92)
127 / 2002-08-26 - The Foundation for National Progress, MOTHER JONES, Editorial Office. San Francisco, CA.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 93)
128 / 2002-08-26 - THE NATION. Editorial Office. New York, NY.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 94)
129 / 2002-08-26 - NATIONAL REVIEW, Editorial Office. New York, NY.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 95)
130 / 2002-08-26 - THE NEW REPUBLIC, Editorial Office. Washington, DC.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 96)
131 / 2002-08-27 - THE NEW YORKER, Editorial Office. New York, NY.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 97)
132 / 2002-08-27 - NEWSWEEK, Editorial Office. New York, NY.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 98)
133 / 2002-08-27 - THE PROGRESSIVE, Editorial Office. Madison, WI.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 99)
134 / 2002-08-27 - TIME, European Head Office, Editorial Office. Time Warner Publishing B.V.
Amsterdam. CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 101)
135 / 2002-08-28 - THE NEW YORK TIMES, Editorial Office. New York, NY.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 103)
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