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Ryke Geerd Hamer got testicular cancer himself in 1978 (or beginning of 1979), but seeked professional help and underwent surgery in a clinic in Tübingen. He survived this miraculously, according to his own opinion he had a survival chance of only 2%.<ref>http://www.neue-medizin.de/html/ein_vermachtnis.html</ref> His cancer appeared only two month after the death of his son Dirk (that was December 1978), and Hamer was convinced that event was the cause of his cancer.<ref>http://www.newmedicine.ca/interview.php [...] in 1978 I developed testicular cancer from such a biological conflict, a so-called "loss conflict [...]"</ref>. But cancer needs years to develop, and not two month. His wife died instead because of her breast cancer in 1985, a GNM therapy by Hamer was not successful. Hamer said this at the end of 1985 and declared his wife to be his ''first patient after discovering the iron rules of cancer''.

Ryke Geerd Hamer got testicular cancer himself in 1978 (or beginning of 1979), but seeked professional help and underwent surgery in a clinic in Tübingen. He survived this miraculously, according to his own opinion he had a survival chance of only 2%.<ref>http://www.neue-medizin.de/html/ein_vermachtnis.html</ref> His cancer appeared only two month after the death of his son Dirk (that was December 1978), and Hamer was convinced that event was the cause of his cancer.<ref>http://www.newmedicine.ca/interview.php [...] in 1978 I developed testicular cancer from such a biological conflict, a so-called "loss conflict [...]"</ref>. But cancer needs years to develop, and not two month. His wife died instead because of her breast cancer in 1985, a GNM therapy by Hamer was not successful. Hamer said this at the end of 1985 and declared his wife to be his ''first patient after discovering the iron rules of cancer''.

==Sceptical view of the Germanic New Medicine==

==Sceptical view of the GNM==

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Hamer has never pubished his hypotheses in a scientific paper (his doctoral thesis has nothing to do with it), and apart from an article by danish holistic physician (now barred) Sören Ventegodt that appeared in a rather less-important journal <ref>Ventegodt et al. Fulltext: http://www.thescientificworldjournal.com/headeradmin/upload/2005.03.16.pdf</ref> no scientific paper analyzing his method can be found in data-bases. The author Ventegodt has also lost his medical licence in the mean time and has been critized to work in a pseudoscientific way, and it seems that the jounal is accepting papers after a ''payment'' has been made <ref>http://kasperolsen.wordpress.com/2005/12/19/more-dangerous-pseudo-science/ Ventegodt and pseudoscience</ref>. This makes it more difficult to evaluate his ideas.

Hamer has never published his hypotheses in a scientific paper (his doctoral thesis has nothing to do with it), and apart from an article by danish holistic physician (now barred) Sören Ventegodt that appeared in a rather less-important journal<ref>Ventegodt et al. Fulltext: http://www.thescientificworldjournal.com/headeradmin/upload/2005.03.16.pdf</ref> no scientific paper analyzing his method can be found in databases. The author Ventegodt has also lost his medical license in the meantime and has been criticized to work in a pseudoscientific way, and it seems that the journal is accepting papers after a ''payment'' has been made.<ref>http://kasperolsen.wordpress.com/2005/12/19/more-dangerous-pseudo-science/ Ventegodt and pseudoscience</ref> This makes it more difficult to evaluate his ideas.

The inventor RG Hamer does not present scientific proofs in favor of his method, and does not present controlled and placebo-controlled prospective studies suporting it. He shows instead retrospective filtered reports and letters with anecdotical value, often underwritten by himself or laymen.  

The inventor Hamer does not present scientific proofs in favor of his method, and does not present controlled and placebo-controlled prospective studies supporting it. He shows instead retrospective filtered reports and letters with anecdotal value, often underwritten by himself or laymen.

Hamer does never recognize any limit of his medical knowledge (he could not work as physician after 1986) and behaves as an ''Expert'' in every branch of medicine, exactly as described by the ''Dunning-Kruger effect'' <ref>Justin Kruger, David Dunning (1999), "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77 (6): 1121–34. PMID 10626367. [http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf]</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect</ref>.

Hamer does never recognize any limit of his medical knowledge (he could not work as physician after 1986) and behaves as an ''expert'' in every branch of medicine, exactly as described by the ''Dunning-Kruger effect''<ref>Justin Kruger, David Dunning (1999), "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77 (6): 1121–34. PMID 10626367. [http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf]</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect</ref> becoming a danger for his patients.

becoming a danger for his patients.

==External and internal contradictions and obvious errors in Germanic New Medicine==

==External and internal contradictions and obvious errors in Germanic New Medicine==