>>114508395If Rudolph refuted anything he would have been validated in court. Science is either wrong or it isn't. Now let's get started:
"Forensic chemistry is, I repeat, an exact science."
Holocaust-denier David Irving,
introduction to the Leuchter Report, 1988
"[C]hemistry is not the science which can prove or refute any allegations about the Holocaust 'rigorously'."
Holocaust-denier and chemist Germar Rudolf,
response to Rich Green, 1998
Introduction
Rigorous Proof and Exact Science
The so-called forensic reports of Leuchter, [1] Lüftl [2] and Rudolf [3] have for some time been used by Holocaust deniers as their chief argument - their ace in the hole - against the veracity of mass murder by gassing at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The argument goes that what is physically impossible cannot be true, no matter what testimonial evidence, documentary evidence, or physical evidence is amassed to demonstrate it. No number of witnesses suffices to prove that water can run uphill, and likewise all evidence regarding the Holocaust could be wiped away, if deniers could only prove that gassings were physically impossible.
Thus it is, in the literature of denial, that we see great weight given to these three reports. In the late 1980s Leuchter was cited with great frequency, and now that distinction is gradually being passed to the work of Germar Rudolf. [4]
