Germanic New Medicine: what?
On the occasion of the documentation in the Bavarian Television and the comment battle Florian over at a few loose comments about the Germanic New Medicine (GNM) :
A few times I’ve been asked how the GNM and Mr. Hamer were evaluated from a scientific point of view then. To the following:
1. One must first of all very clear that from a scientific point of view Mr. Hamer a madman. For non-scientific view that matter. I know the term “lunatic” is not politically correct. But he is in the case of Hamer appropriate.
2. His monstrous creation, the GNM is, in all its aspects so a demented theory that a serious medical and scientific consideration prohibits from today’s perspective. All facts have long since known, all the argumentative waste of GNM has long been disproved. The GNM today to discuss again would seriously enhance them unnecessarily. It deserves the status of Flacherde theory.
3. Seriously, however it applies to the phenomenon of GNM-trailers GNM “round tables” to organize and distribute the GNM and life get on. This phenomenon can be best understood in my view, in the form of an analogy from epidemiology:
The belief in the GNM is an extremely dangerous virus, the host priority scientifically illiterate, gullible or desperate people. Since this virus only occasionally kills its host actually (often it kills a child instead of the host), dies, unfortunately not even from. It must therefore be actively discouraged by society. Effective antisera already exist, they are called “Enlightenment” and “science education”. Unfortunately, the population is the immunization rate in the far too low to ensure herd immunity.
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