"science doesn't know everything, but it is the only reasonable basis of knowledge that we have. That is why it is so important.“ The who says? The cabaret artist Dieter Nuhr said to Consist in an audio message, to him, the German research Foundation (DFG) to decide for the campaign "DFG 2020 For the Knowledge of" your hundred-year-old had asked.
science is the way to knowledge, says Nuhr. Knowledge does not mean, "that one is to be a hundred percent sure, but that one has enough facts to have a reasoned opinion". Science also meant "that the opinion changes when the facts change" – "no doctrine of salvation, not a Religion, the absolute truth will be proclaimed". Who "calls constantly ,Follow the science!'", didn't realise that, obviously.
The statement is likely to be obvious to any Rational. In the Corona-crisis is presented to us, what science is, how difficult and opposition of rich the search for the truth, and that this is a preliminary state of knowledge, the writing in this case, virologists and epidemiologists daily Fort.
So could the sentence of Dieter Nuhr so well to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fit, whose task consists of the science "in all its branches" to serve and "projects of the knowledge-driven research" to promote, with funds mainly Federal government and the Länder to provide. To include the guidelines of the DFG, strict honesty", "all the results consistently self-doubt, as well as a critical discourse in the scientific community, and to promote"".
Dieter Nuhr Says otherwise? He does not say. But what appeared to of the DFG, suitable, was a few days after the appearance of the audio suddenly intolerable. The DFG, which had defended the comedian, first of all, put out this short Statement on your page. "Dear Community," she wrote on Twitter, "we take the criticism, the many comments and suggestions seriously, and have removed the contribution of Dieter Nuhr from the campaign website //dfg2020.de ".
The "love Community", of course, the power pack, the drums for a long time against Dieter Nuhr and him with hatred followed, because he communicates differently than many in his profession, to the left and to the right, against any ideological Thinking and the climate movement criticised. For "free and knowledge-led" Think he is a good witness to those who belong to him as the "Covidioten" or "AfD-cabaret" revile, are not.
Date Of Update: 02 August 2020, 12:40
