Kända revisionister: Germar Rudolf

Since I was bored by my PhD thesis and the entire field it was embedded in, and also did not like the career path it was offering me -- and also because I was looking for distraction from an unhappy love affair (Anne-Marie, I blame it one you!) --, I started researching into a topic that had peeked my curiosity since summer 1989: The (in)famous Leuchter Report.

The Institute for Solid State Physics dismissed Rudolf without notice on 7 June, saying that he was wrong to use the institute's facilities for work which would bring it into disrepute. It said that Rudolf had misled the Fresenius Institute by implying that the samples were related to work at the Max Planck institute, because he had used institute notepaper.

But Rudolf argues that several people at the institute had known of his work for more than a year before the dismissal, including his supervisor Hans Georg von Schnering, who, he claims, was sometimes supportive. He says the work was done in his free time and the Fresenius institute knew from telephone conversations that his work was independent.
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Von Schnering admits that he knew of Rudolf's work, but says that the clause in Germany's constitution, guaranteeing freedom of research, prevented him from reporting to senior staff at the institute what Rudolf was doing in his spare time. "Rudolf was a good student scientifically, but the conclusions of the report were all wrong," he now says.

Since I was bored by my PhD thesis and the entire field it was embedded in, and also did not like the career path it was offering me -- and also because I was looking for distraction from an unhappy love affair (Anne-Marie, I blame it one you!) --, I started researching into a topic that had peeked my curiosity since summer 1989: The (in)famous Leuchter Report.

I eventually came up with results that were unwelcome -- I confirmed Leuchter's thesis -- and my results were published shortly before I was to finish my PhD thesis.
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And the best of it all was that behind closed doors, the then managing director of this institute, Prof. Dr. Arnd Simon, admitted that I was right in what I had done, and that even my result were probably correct, only one couldn't publish it when the topic is too controversial, and he admitted that he had to distance himself from it in order to preserve his career and position. After this, my patience with these hypocritical and arrogant ivory tower scientists was definitely over.
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What followed between June 1993 and early 1996 was a series of persecutorial measures by all members of the German society: my final PhD examination was first put on hold, then I was threatened that my thesis would be rejected if I would not withdraw it, using a Hitler law of 1939, still on the books in Germany today, that allowed to withhold academic degrees in case of lacking "academic dignity."

director of this institute, Prof. Dr. Arnd Simon, admitted that I was right in what I had done, and that even my result were probably correct, only one couldn't publish it when the topic is too controversial, and he admitted that he had to distance himself from it in order to preserve his career and position.

What followed between June 1993 and early 1996 was a series of persecutorial measures by all members of the German society: my final PhD examination was first put on hold...

Prof. Dr. Arnd Simon, admitted that I was right in what I had done, and that even my result were probably correct, only one couldn't publish it when the topic is too controversial, and he admitted that he had to distance himself from it.