Ryke Geerd Hamer

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Ryke Geerd Hamer (born May 17, 1935) is a barred German physician who is the originator of the highly controversial Germanic New Medicine, also formerly known as German New Medicine and New Medicine, that criticizes mainstream medicine, and promises a 98% chance of healing for cancer. The approach has been described as "dangerous, especially as it lulls the patients into a false sense of security so that they are deprived of other effective treatments, "^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Dirk Hamer's death 3 GNM 4 Notable case 5 Antisemitism 6 Criticism 7 Works by Ryke Geerd Hamer 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

[edit] Biography

Ryke Geerd Hamer was born in Düsseldorf-Mettmann (Germany) in 1935. He received his high school diploma at age 18 and started medical and theological studies in Tübingen, where he met Sigrid Oldenburg, a medical student who later became his wife. At age 20, he passed the preliminary examination in medicine, married a year later, and completed his theological examinations at 22. A daughter was born to the young family and a son, Dirk. In April 1962 Hamer passed his medical state examination in Marburg and he was granted a professional license as a doctor of medicine in 1963. According to Hamer himself, there followed a number of years at the University Clinics of Tübingen and Heidelberg. In 1972, Hamer completed his specialization in internal medicine. He also worked in several practices with his wife. He patented several inventions.

In 1978 the loss of his son Dirk led Hamer to develop his "Germanic New Medicine" (GNM) which led to legal complications. Hamer's license to practice medicine was revoked in 1986 by a court judgment in Germany and this reconfirmed in 2003. As he continued to treat patients, Hamer was investigated several times on allegations of malpractice and the death of patients.^[2] He was jailed for 12 months in Germany from 1997 to 1998, and served a prison term from September 2004 to February 2006 in Fleury Merogis, France on counts of fraud and illegal practicing. He subsequently lived in exile in Spain until March 2007, when he allegedly left Spain.

[edit] Dirk Hamer's death

The violent death of his son, Dirk Hamer (born 1959), was a key event in the development of the theories of Hamer. On August 8, 1978 his son was shot while he slept on a yacht off Cavallo by Vittorio Emanuele. After a protracted medical course Dirk Hamer died on December 7, 1978. On August 18, 1991 the Paris Assize Court did not find Vittorio Emanuele guilty of homicide; with a highly controversial decision, he was only convicted of the illegal possession of a rifle.^[3]

When incarcerated in June 2006 on charges of corruption, Vittorio Emanuele was recorded admitting that in reference to the death of Dirk Hamer that "I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges]",^[4]

Two months after his son's death, Hamer detected in himself a testicular cancer, which could be cured conventionally.

[edit] GNM

Sometime after the death of his son Dirk Hamer began to believe, that any disease, most notably cancer, is not dangerous in itself, but merely a biological symptom of a psychological conflict situation. Hamer claims that the effect on the brain can be demonstrated by brain CT scans where a specific focal alteration is apparent and that the conflict-related organ responds with “cancer”. According to Hamer this conflict needs to be resolved in order for the disease to be cured. Traditional treatments are not considered as having any primary value but as too dangerous.

Hamer also argues that conventional medical research is not falsifiable and often in the interest of pharmaceutical companies, preventing accurate investigation in the causes and treatment of diseases, and ignores the role of the mind in the genesis of the disease. Hamer claims the Trnava University and others have confirmed Hamer's theories. Hamer insists that his system is verifiable and complains that the medical establishment is failing to respond. Hamer agrees that in case of a severe conflict or wrongful application of his method GNM will not rescue the patient.^[5][6]

These anomalies in brain CT scans have been identified by radiologists to be ring artifacts.^[7] Applying Hamer's theories is punishable in some countries as malpractice in coincidence with fraud, because mainstream medicine does not acknowledge a single successful treatment.^[1] Furthermore conventional medicine officials complain, that Hamer's theorems are not falsifiable, since they are often tautologies.

[edit] Notable case

Hamer became known mainly through his association with the Olivia Pilhar cancer case in 1995. Olivia, then aged six, suffered from Wilms' tumor. When Olivia and her parents were left alone on the oncology ward, which was lacking psychological support for relatives and patients, the parents withheld conventional medical therapy from their child Olivia and found Hamer to be a trustworthy alternative. The Austrian authorities finally removed their rights of care and control, and the parents fled from Austria to Spain with the child. There, Hamer unsuccessfully treated the child using his method. The tumor continued to grow.

After negotiations including the intervention of the Austrian president, the parents were persuaded to return with the condition of no repression. By then, Olivia's tumor weighed several kilograms. The child was finally given emergency medical treatment after a court order against the parents' wishes and is still alive in 2007. Her parents received an eight-month suspended jail sentence in Austria.

The parents still support Hamer's method and have their own web site which explains the matter from their perspective.^[5]

[edit] Antisemitism

The conflict between supporters and opponents of Hamer's pretensions, at the base of which what "biological laws" lays, has become more acrimonious over the years, with Hamer being accused of using anti-semitic terminology and claiming that a genocidal Zionistic conspiracy wants him silenced. According to Hamer, Jews cure themselves with the Germanic New Medicine and prevent non-Jews from using it. He says the doctors of official medicine are guilty of the "most hideous crime in the whole history of mankind". However Hamer clearly explains that he is neither an antisemite nor a racist nor a religious fanatic, but a subject to denouncing. Hamer explains that he "he wants to help anyone, no matter who is it" and "crime is a crime no matter it is done by Chineses, Esquimaus, or in this case, Jews.^[8]

[edit] Criticism

The Swiss Cancer League of Swiss Society for Oncology, Swiss Society for Medical Oncology and Swiss Institute for Applied Cancer Research observe that no case of a cancer cure has been published in medical literature nor any studies in specialised journals. Reports in his books "lack the additional data that are essential for medical assessment" and investigation presentations at medical conferences "are scientifically unconvincing".^[1]

[edit] Works by Ryke Geerd Hamer

• Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer (2000). Summary of the New Medicine. Amici di Dirk. ISBN 84-930091-9-9. 
• Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer (2005). Einer gegen alle. Amici di Dirk. ISBN 84-96127-15-X. 
• Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer (2004). Krebs und alle sog. Krankheiten. Amici di Dirk. ISBN 84-96127-12-5. 
• Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer (1998). Vermächtnis einer Neuen Medizin. Amici di Dirk. ISBN 978-3926755001. 

[edit] See also

• Meta-Medicine, another group that supports and applies Hamer's theories, including his so called "biological laws".[1]. And even create new organizations with the support of famous actors [2]. Hamer himself describes the meta-medicine "meta-bandits".^[9]
• Christian Science, a religious sect originating in the United States which believes disease is a sign of a spiritual problem, and has been similarly accused of causing deaths by withholding traditional medical treatment.
• Scientology, a religious movement established in 1954, that recommends thorough psychotherapeutic measures that shall locate psychological traumas in order to avoid cataclysmic damage

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official English language site
• Searchlightmagazine and Hamer
• The AGPF about Hamer (german)
• 'Wehrhafte Medizin!' (german) One of the large international sites about charlatanism and quackery. Some of the following links and pages are taken from there.
• biography of Hamer
• 'Kontraste', Beitrag vom 10.11.2005 Falsche Versprechen - die toedliche Gefahr der 'Germanischen Neuen Medizin' (german)
• Report Mainz vom 18.November 2002 Krebs heilen durch Nichtstun? Die gefaehrlichen Thesen der 'Neuen Medizin' (german)
• Film von 1984 Hamer mit Patienten
• Verschiedene Filme/Vortrage different films)