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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
163 / 2002-10-04 - HESSISCHES MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT U. KUNST. Wiesbaden.
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164 / 2002-10-04 - MINISTERIUM FÜR BILDUNG, WISSENSCHAFT U. KULTUR. Schwerin.
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165 / 2002-10-05 - NIEDERSÄCHSISCHES MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT U. KULTUR. Hannover.
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166 / 2002-10-05 - MINISTERIUM FÜR SCHULE, WISSENSCHAFT U. FORSCHUNG DES LANDES NRW. Düsseldorf.
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167 / 2002-10-05 - MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, WEITERBILDUNG, FORSCHUNG U. KULTUR DES LANDES
RHEINLAND-PFALZ. Mainz. CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 136)
168 / 2002-10-05 - MINISTERIUM FÜR BILDUNG, KULTUR U. WISSENSCHAFT. Saarbrücken.
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169 / 2002-10-06 - SÄCHSISCHES STAATSMINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT U. KUNST. Dresden.
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170 / 2002-10-06 - KULTUSMINISTERIUM DES LANDES SACHSEN-ANHALT. Magdeburg.
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171 / 2002-10-06 - MINISTERIUM FÜR BILDUNG, WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG U. KULTUR. Kiel.
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172 / 2002-10-06 - THÜRINGER MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG U. KUNST. Erfurt.
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173 / 2002-10-08 - Prof. Claus LEGGEWIE c/o Institut f. Politikwissenschaft. Giessen.
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Identically Worded Letter
to 9 German Academies of Sciences, October 2002
Extracts:
“Dear Mr. President
we hereby allow ourselves to draw your attention to our above-mentioned documentation in which we prove
several circumstances that have not previously been made known to the public:
1. “For the first time it is proven that since 1922, in the field of theoretical physics in Germany, freedom of
science has been done away with by suppression and defamation of the criticism of the special theory of relativity
by the field of academic physics, a situation that has lasted up to the present day. This represents a break by physics
with tradition in that it no longer informs the public objectively, but hoodwinks it as to the true status of the theory.
Until now - strangely enough - this occurrence and the resulting state of affairs has not been noticed by any science
sociologist or science historian or scientific journalist and has therefore not been reported to the public. [...]
We respectfully request that you check the soundness of our documentation and, in the event of a positive result
of this examination, that you evaluate the problems brought to light in our documentation as well as the need for
action. The German academies of sciences have an inner autonomy and an authority in our society, are not bound
by the particular interests of certain circles and have, on the basis of this standing, the possibility of at least
arranging for a free public discussion of the questions raised by our documentation. If the relativists soundly
believe in their own propaganda, they need have no fear for their theory from a free discussion of the criticism.
We are convinced, and we hope for your support in this, that in a democratically aligned and pluralistically
organized society a right that is anchored in the constitution, such as the right of scientific freedom, must not be
suppressed in a certain specialist field by academic science. Progress is only possible in the context of free and
critical discussion. All dogmatic suppression of the criticism is wrongful and harmful to science through prevention
of, for example, the repetition of certain experiments and the conducting of new experiments, because they might
be detrimental to the interests of the powers that be in physics. [...]
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