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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
680 / 2004-09-25 - Lord Ralf Gustav DAHRENDORF c/o House of Lords. London.
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Extract:
“If now the press, on the occasion of the “Caroline” judgement, has rediscovered its noble self-image as the
“fourth power” and passionately invokes its guardian duties within the democracy, it must first admit to itself and to
the public its shameful role in the suppression of criticism of the theory, and must give up this role.
If one surveys the development of the criticism since the first critical work of Max Abraham in 1908, and since
the effective date of suppression in Germany in 1922, i.e. over 8 decades, and seeks to evaluate the role of the press
in this connection, it is not possible to ignore the bringing-into-line of the entire serious press over a period of 8
decades in Germany (as for the epoch 1933-45, see below). This diagnosis appears to us to be unavoidable and
irrefutable. Must not every serious journalist at least concern himself or herself with this diagnosis at least until he
or she has found a plausible explanation for it?
How could this bringing-into-line - however partial - take place in all serious editorial staffs in the country? And
what is it that keeps this staying-in-line intact, even today? Why do all journalists in Germany seem to regard this
conformity as the most natural thing in the world? Behind the conformity there is a feeling - whether conscious or
unconscious - that it is an advantage for science (physics) if it cannot be criticized. What an idea!
The role of the serious press in the decades of suppression of the criticism of the theory desperately needs to be
clarified. Why did the open letters by O. Kraus addressed to Albert Einstein and Max von Laue in 1925 attract no
one’s interest? How can the work of a lifetime, like that of E. Gehrcke, remain fully unnoticed? Why was the cry of
help from Hans Israel, the publisher of the small book “100 Authors Against Einstein” in 1931, against the “Terror
der Einsteinianer” [Terror of the Einsteiners] not heeded? How can a book like that by G. Galeczki and P.
Marquardt (“Requiem für die Spezielle Relativität” [Requiem for the Special Theory of Relativity], 1997) remain
fully ignored? Who in today’s editorial staff is at all aware and conscious of the existence of this conformity (apart
from the convinced relativists, who find such conformity in their own interests very acceptable)?”
681 / 2004-10-03 - Freimut DUVE. Hamburg. CD-ROM 1.2
682 / 2004-10-03 - Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER c/o Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH. Frankfurt a. M.
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683 / 2004-10-03 - Prof. Peter GLOTZ c/o Inst. f. Medien- u. Kommunikationsmanagement. St. Gallen.
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684 / 2004-10-03 - Prof. Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Präsident der Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Leibniz. Berlin.
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685 / 2004-10-03 - Rolf HOCHHUTH. Basel. CD-ROM 1.2
686 / 2004-10-05 - Prof. Claus LEGGEWIE c/o Institut f. Politikwissenschaft. Giessen.
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687 / 2004-10-05 - Prof. Jan Philipp REEMTSMA c/o Stiftung Hamburger Institut f. Sozialforschung.
Hamburg. CD-ROM 1.2
688 / 2004-10-05 - Prof. Jens REICH. Berlin. CD-ROM 1.2
689 / 2004-10-05 - Wolf Jobst SIEDLER c/o Siedler Verlag. Berlin. CD-ROM 1.2
690 / 2004-10-05 - Prof. Peter SLOTERDIJK c/o Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung. Karlsruhe.
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691 / 2004-10-08 - Christoph STÖLZL. Berlin. CD-ROM 1.2
692 / 2004-10-08 - Hans-Jochen VOGEL. München. CD-ROM 1.2
693 / 2004-10-08 - Prof. Uwe WESEL. Berlin. CD-ROM 1.2
694 / 2004-10-08 - Dieter E. ZIMMER c/o DIE ZEIT. Hamburg. CD-ROM 1.2
Two subsequent corrections integrated in the chronology increased the total number of consignments:
695 / see 320 a - 2003-11-16 FAZ
696 / see 616 a - 2004-08-08 FAZ
697 / 2004-11-17 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK. Acquisition Section. Passau. CD-ROM 1.2
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