Germanic New Medicine

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inventor RG Hamer

The Germanic New Medicine ® (also called formerly New Medicine, Germanic New Medicine or German new Medicine) is a pseudoscientific alternative medicine and registered trade mark in 2003 that appeared in Germany in 1981. Many hopeful cancer patients treated by this method died in the past, at least 140 (see details below). This method was invented by the german barred physician Ryke Geerd Hamer, who has been prosecuted in several European countries for illegal medical practice. Hamer lives in southern Norway at present time. His address is his publishing company GERMANISCHE NEUE MEDIZIN FORLAG DR. HAMER Sandkollveien 11, N-3229 Sandefjord / Norway. In two different interviews given in september 2007 he declared that he fled from Spain to Norway in order to escape an arrest warrant from Germany for incitement of hatred against a minority of the population (article 130 of german criminal laws) as Hamer made many public statements in open letters and webpages againts jews and did accuse an international Jewish conspiracy (and in particular the New Yorker B'nai B'rith) of having killed two billion people by hiding the truth about the New Medicine which, he suggests, can heal 98% of all cancer cases.

The New Germanic Medicine (NGM) has never been accepted by and is widely ignored by the scientific academic medicine of today and their principles contradict clearly principles of modern evidence-based medicine. There is however, no known interdiction of this controversial method. Hamer spreads his ideas in his books, published in his own publishing company Amici di Dirk, via many different private webpages in the internet and by publications of some followers or associations linked to his doctrines.

According to its inventor Hamer, every disease of man, animal or plant is the result of a former not well-defined biological conflict obeying to only five so-called biological laws of nature he allegedly found and no scientist could find so far. Only effects of radiation and injuries are not the result of the presumed conflicts, Hamer adds in his statements. The NGM is a mainly diagnostic construction and can be seen as a primitive reinvention of some concepts of earlier psychosomatic medicine, mixed with some proprietary, pseudoscientific and unvalidated tests and an grotesc erroneous interpretation of CT brain scans. Some of his ideas were proposed in the past (cristian science or anthroposophic medicine...). What is usually called disease or symptom, is considered to be a sensible biological program (in german: sinnvolles biologisches Sonderprogramm as a reaction of an healthy organism to the alleged conflicts. According to Hamer's school, all severe diseases like cancer can be healed in 95% of all cases performing a so-called conflictolysis according to new medicine. Unsuccesses of his method or the death of patients are due to interventions of scolastic medicine, the use of morphine or because the patient was not totally convinced by new medicine. The inventor does not mention any literature supporting his ideas, some of his assertions remember however concepts in anthroposophical medicine and other concepts developed earlied than 1981. No prospective and scientifically controlled clinical trial has been made so far to show an eventual effectivness and no peer-reviewed articles in serious medical journals exist.

Germanic

Germanic is a term that appeared first in roman times about 200 years before Christ and was used by romans (for instance Plinius the old) to designate different people living east of Rhine river or north of the alps. These different people never called themthelves germanic, this term was an invention of some of the enemies of the different germanic people and tribes. When, in 2004, Hamer was asked why he wanted his hypotheses to be called germanic, he answered: ..weil ich stolz bin ein Deutscher zu sein.. (because I'm proud to be a german) . Hamer justified the term also in his book Vermächtnis einer neuen Medizin , asserting that the germanics had allegendly no concept of evil or good as this would allegedly only appear in judaic and christian tradition. Hamer espressed also his convintion that medicine had been invented in Germany, the country of poets, musicians, inventors and discoverer, and that Germany was the mother of all european languages, which is nonsense.

No published reports about healed cancer-patients so far

No report about healed cancer patients who had survived a new-medicine therapy and that have not been treated by academic medicine has been published so far, only some anecdotical stories are know. For instance a german asserts that he had survived eleven times a leukemia thank's to Hamer's method , another one asserts to be healed wondrously from an atheroma (this is not cancer), and someone thinks that his torticollis was in fact a non-Hodgkin lymphoma . Admirer and followers of new medicine think that thousands of cancer patients have be healed by the new medicine, a neutral observer must wonder why they don not show up to support this method.

notable cases of failure of new medicine

Many former new-medicine patients having cancer died so far. More than 140 persons are known so far in 2008. This is documented in different court files and sentences, newspaper articles, reports of relatives and in the list presented by Aribert Deckers . Many out of them had a good chance to survive as they had cancer that responds well to modern therapies (f.i. testicular cancer, Hodgkin-lymphoma). A detailed presentation of notable cases can be seen here: victims of new medicine.

Ryke Geerd Hamer got testicular cancer himself in 1978 (or beginning of 1979), but seeked professional help and was operated in a clinic in Tübingen. He survived this miraculously, according to his own opinion he had a survival chance of only 2% . 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 . But cancer needs years to develop, and not two month. His wife died instead because of her breast cancer in 1985, a new medicine therapy by Hamer was not successful. Hamer said this at the end of 1985 and declared his wife to be his first patient after dicovering the iron rules of cancer.

A sceptical view of the New Germanic Medicine

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 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 . 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.

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 . becoming a danger for his patients.