THE RUDOLF REPORT

8. EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL ANALYSESunderstand something initially. Anyone, however, who makes a claimto scientific reliability must, before making statements upon the subject,at least attempt to investigate and understand. But not so the Polishscientists. They assert their lack of understanding as a justificationfor their failure to act. Has anyone ever heard that failure to understanda phenomenon was any reason for scientists not to study it? To the Polishscientists, this was obviously the case. It would only be permissibleto exclude Iron Blue from the study if it were possible to exclude, withpractical certainty, that the effects of hydrogen cyanide on masonrycould result in the formation of iron cyanide, and, consequently, IronBlue, and if there were at least some indication that these rooms hadbeen painted with Iron Blue. The Polish scientists completely neglectedto do this. And even worse: they did not even attempt to refutemy arguments on the formation of stable iron cyanide compoundswhich I published in early 1993. 512 They were familiar with this publication,because they quoted it, but not, for example, in order to discussmy arguments, but simply to condemn it flatly as an example of theallegedly diabolical deeds of the ‘deniers’ and the ‘whitewashers’ ofHitler, who Prof. Markiewicz and his colleagues intended to refute—sotheir own words. This should suffice to show that the Polish actionswere ideologically motivated, to a high degree. If they had been neutralscientists, they would have applied the correct and interpretablemethod of analysis and would have discussed my publications in ascholarly manner instead of worrying about Hitler’s dirty laundry.Prof. Markiewicz and his colleagues did not even attempt to findany explanation for the high iron cyanide concentration in the walls ofthe disinfestation chambers and their blotchy-blue surfaces.Although they had sought out an analytical method able to producethe results desired by them, the results of their first series of testswere obviously so disturbing that they decided to suppress them andnever published them. These data only became public knowledgethrough an act of indiscretion in 1991 (see chapter 8.3.2.). 513The Polish scientists therefore rejected the undesired results of512 E. Gauss, Vorlesungen…, op. cit. (note 43), pp. 163-170; 290-294.513 The first series of studies, undertaken by J. Markiewicz, W. Gubala, J. Labedz, and B. Trzcinska,were never published by the authors of the studies. Only the revisionists have publishedtheir findings, after the article was smuggled out of the Jan Sehn Institute by unknown personsin 1991; see also note 56; for further remarks on this example of ‘political science’, see G.Rudolf, op. cit. (note 58).271