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Subject: 4(9) Brainwash

Delete the "Brainwash Paragraph"! (MFK, Sweden) [Sent 25.02.96]

I'm posting here a statement by the1995 annual meeting of our
association Miljoevaenner Foer Kaernkraft (MFK), Sweden,
which IMO merits attention also internationally. For address,
homepages etc of this organization, see end of this article.


                              *STATEMENT*


by the Annual Meeting of Environmentalists For Nuclear Power
(Sweden) in Lund on March 25, 1995

     The association Environmentalists For Nuclear Power on the
occasion of its annual meeting, on this day, with the below statement
protests against and demands the abolition of the first line of =A7 5a
and the entire  =A7 6 of the Law Concerning Nuclear Technology.

          *DELETE THE "BRAINWASH PARAGRAPH"!*

     For a long time past, Western culture has been inseparably
connected to the idea of freedom of thought. This has not always
been a self-evident thing, though the quarters of resistance to it have
varied. In ancient times it was above all religion that played this less
glorious role, and in this connection the experience of Galilei is well
known. The age of Enlightenment brought great progress, not least
as to combat against various forms of superstition. We limit ourselves
to mentioning the witch-trials which were finally stopped, above all
thanks to the efforts of Urban Hjaerne. After the great material
progress during the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th
century, it was thought that phenomena of this kind were extinct for
all future. We here disregard those rather harmless predictions of the
astrologists which are well-known from weeklies and tabloid papers.

     However, new fields of force were established, above all within
certain political creeds. The best- known is the Soviet geneticist Lysenko,
who for several decades ruled supreme within this science. As is well known,
he championed the teaching, appealing to the political leaders, that
acquired qualities could be inherited, and researchers who did not accept
this dogma were effectively barred
>from continued work. Swedish geneticists played an honourable role when they
forcefully combated this superstition which put up unsurmountable barriers
to serious Soviet genetics.

     We now come to the main point of this statement. In the year 1984,
the Riksdag (Swedish parlia- ment) established a new law whose =A7 5a
has a first line reading, simply: "Permission to build a nuclear power
reactor must not be given". In the year 1987, on the proposal of the
minister of energy, the =A7 6 was added: "No one is allowed to draw up
construction designs, calculate costs, order equipment or take such
other preparatory measures in order within this country to build a
nuclear power reactor" - known as the "Brainwash Paragraph". As sole
country in the world, Sweden has criminalized a certain type of
research, probably in order to satisfy a vociferous but more and more
shrinking body of opinion. This is nothing less than an international
scandal! We hold that Sweden must live up to the image of a country of
culture, and that all official superstition must be combated. We consider
it a point of honour by all means at our disposal to defend freedom of
research!

Lund 1995-03-25

Annual Meeting of Miljoevaenner Foer Kaernkraft (MFK,
Environmentalists For Nuclear Power)

Indrek Martinson=09=09=09=09
Chairman=09=09=09=09
Professor of Physics=09

Carl-Erik Froeberg
Member of Steering Committee
Professor Em.of Numerical Analysis


Translation from the Swedish by RM, March '95

MFK (Environmentalists For Nuclear Power):
Address:
Box 83
S - 430 24 Vaeroebacka
Sweden

Tel: +46 - 340 - 78290, +46 - 433 - 25015 
Tel Internet matters: +46 - 46 - 730271
Fax: +46 - 46 - 730272                       
Postal cheque account (Postgiro): 1 33 74 - 4

E-mail address: mfk-AT-sbbs.se

Home pages:

http://www.sbbs.se/com/home/dambo/
http://www.sbbs.se/com/home/dambo/mfk.html
http://www.sbbs.se/com/home/dambo/esidan.html





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