Re: University College London Sacks Honorary Fellow for Not Believing in the Holocaust
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Re: University College London Sacks Honorary Fellow for Not Believing in the Holocaust         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Immortalist
Date: Jun 4, 2008 20:01

On Jun 4, 4:49 pm, St Georges Day April 23rd
googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom, a respected astronomer and author, is the
> latest scientist to discover the limits of academic freedom in the
> Western world.
>
> Until recently Dr Kollerstrom was an honorary fellow of University
> College London. His views as a science historian were sought by
> scientific journals and media organisations, such as the BBC in its
> report on new research concerning the planet Neptune.
>
> Yet on 22nd April University College abruptly terminated his
> fellowship, without any consultation or right of appeal. Dr
> Kollerstrom's offence was to have published sceptical views about
> scientific aspects of the Holocaust on the CODOH website, based in
> America. At no time had he promoted these views within University
> College, or done anything to bring the college into disrepute.
>
> The London based Jewish Chronicle duly boasted about Dr Kollerstrom's
> dismissal on the front page of its 25th April edition.
>
> On 7th May Dr Kollerstrom first became acquainted with Lady Renouf to
> seek advice on whether he could expect to travel safely to Germany
> where he hoped to present his paper The Walls of Auschwitz - a review
> of the chemical studies to the Berlin Conference on 15th-18th May.
>
> This conference (Extermination in Gas Chambers in National Socialist
> Concentration and Extermination Camps) was designed to refute the
> revisionists' case on the alleged mass murder weapon - the gas
> chamber.
>
> Lady Renouf advised in her observation that:
>
> a)
> it was unlikely that the organisers would include a revisionist paper
> in their unchallengeable conference (as opposed to the entirely open
> to allcomers Tehran Conference in 2006 on The Holocaust - A Global
> Review). And to prove the case she asked the Berlin Conference
> organisers whether she could be included as press, but received no
> response;
>
> b)
> if Dr Kollerstrom were to open his scientific mouth in Germany, or in
> any of the ten countries where it is illegal to bring forensic science
> in to question the Holocaust legend "in full or in part", he would
> risk certain prosecution and a long term of imprisonment.
>
> About to appear herself on a Press TV live panel discussion Lady
> Renouf suggested to the channel, which at last offers UK viewers a
> democratic choice of information sources, that they interview Dr
> Kollerstrom, who had been persecuted by the mainstream media, thus to
> provide him with some redress for the vilification and libel he has
> recently suffered following his scientific article published on a U.S.
> website.
>
> On 14th May the channel duly filmed an interview with the science
> historian Dr Kollerstrom and a second interview with Lady Renouf, who
> provided the background regarding the stark contrast between the open
> democratic approach she had experienced at the Tehran conference, as
> compared to the tyrannical and closed programme of this year's
> government sponsored Berlin conference, where no revisionist was
> invited - though the conference was supposed to be all about
> revisionists and their (source) criticism.
>
> Kollestrom and Renouf at Press TV
> Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom and Lady Michèle Renouf on set at Press TV
> after recording each of their interviews. Lady Renouf is holding a
> copy of The Rudolf Report
>
> The substance of Dr Kollerstrom's interview is his hope that a
> scientific journal will sponsor his own on site chemical analysis of
> the walls of Auschwitz, in the tradition of the Leuchter Report and
> the Rudolf Report. These authors, like Dr Kollerstrom himself, came to
> this work out of scientific curiosity and with no political interest.
>
> After recording his interview Dr Kollerstrom appeared live on Press
> TV's Between the Headlines 14th May edition - click here for the
> relevant excerpt from the programme featuring presenter Jan Fossgard
> and fellow guest Kate Bevan.
>
> Despite Ms Bevan's earlier hypocritical stance in favour of scepticism
> (during a discussion of Le Monde's recent admission that it had
> misidentified photos supposedly of Hiroshima after the 1945 atomic
> bombing) in her subsequent unthinking mandatory denunciation of
> revisionism one recognises at once the archetypical parroting response
> of the mainstream journalist, confronted by a taboo source-critical
> attitude towards what Jewish historians term the "holy of holies".
>
> http://www.tellingfilms.co.uk/kollerstrom.htm
>
> Whether it's jews or muslims they are both fascist hysterics with
> irrational dogmas.

Do you have any links to the Unversity's reasons for this? I cannot
yet support or go against what is presented since it seems to be one-
sided and vague.
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