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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
By sending our documentation as a free gift, we hope to ensure that no one bearing direct public responsibility
or indirect co-responsibility can later claim to have known nothing, and we are attempting to find out how long, in
this Federal Republic of Germany, the massive suppression of scientific freedom in the branch of theoretical
physics can continue to function. Our research project will not have achieved its aim until the reintroduction of
scientific freedom.”
174 / 2002-10-18 - BERLIN-BRANDENBURGISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN. Berlin.
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175 / 2002-10-18 - NORDRHEIN-WESTFÄLISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN. Düsseldorf.
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176 / 2002-10-18 - AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN ZU GÖTTINGEN.
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177 / 2002-10-18 - DEUTSCHE AKADEMIE DER NATURFORSCHER LEOPOLDINA. Halle (Saale).
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178 / 2002-10-19 - HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN. Heidelberg.
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179 / 2002-10-19 - SÄCHSISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN ZU LEIPZIG.
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180 / 2002-10-19 - AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN UND DER LITERATUR. Mainz.
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181 / 2002-10-19 - BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN. München.
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182 / 2002-10-28 - GESELLSCHAFT DEUTSCHER NATURFORSCHER U. ÄRZTE e.V. Bad Honnef.
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183 / 2002-10-28 - DER TAGESSPIEGEL. Editor in Chief Giovanni di Lorenzo. Berlin.
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Extract:
“In recent times, with its critical reporting on current questions in the natural sciences, the TAGESSPIEGEL
has proven that it informs its readers excellently, standing up for remarkable positions in the process:
On 28.9.02 Thomas de Padova reported on the swindle of the physicist J. H. Schön.
“Science should produce ‘secure knowledge’. The Problem with this: the research institutes are financed by a
society that itself is hardly able to control what is going on within the field of science. The public relies completely
on its self-cleansing activities.” - “The community of researchers is well advised to control the work of its members
still more strictly. Otherwise the credibility of science will dwindle still further.”
On 30.9.02 Hartmut Wewetzer commented on the swindle by J. H. Schön:
“Schöns Sturz hat einen Abgrund geöffnet” [Schön’s Fall has Opened up an Abyss].
On 1.10.02 Thomas de Padova remarked on Schön’s swindle: Klaus von Klitzing too has been made a fool of.
On 2.10.02 Alexander S. Kekulé wrote, on the swindle by J. H. Schön:
The fake scandals are only the tip of the iceberg. “Almost every researcher knows of cases in which a result was
not reproducible or had been presented in a manner that was not quite correct. To broach the matter with a
colleague already means breaking a taboo in the “scientific community”, in which everyone is dependent on
everyone else: the doctoral candidates on the group leader, the group leader on the director; the director on the
colleagues in the field, who decide on research funding and the acceptance of publications.”
In view of these positions taken and its high standing the TAGESSPIEGEL, as an institution of the fourth
power - the press - in the Federal Republic of Germany, should be in a position to encourage free public discussion
of scientific freedom in the field of theoretical physics.”
184 / 2002-10-28 - Magazine UNIVERSITAS, Editorial Office. S. Hirzel Verlag. Stuttgart.
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