Stefan Lanka's court case

 A Chairde,

As promised yesterday, more on the German court case disproving measles cause illness. This passage is from the The Contagion Myth, by Dr. Tom Cowan. He discusses German scientist Stefan Lanka's court case about the Measles virus.

Excerpt:

One disease blamed for Native American death was measles, considered to be a viral disease. But on February 16, 2016, the Federal Supreme Court of Germany (BGH) made a historic ruling: there is no evidence for the existence of a measles virus. The case grew out of a challenge by German biologist Stefan Lanka, who offered a sum of one hundred thousand Euros to anyone who could supply proof that the measles virus existed. A young doctor, David Bardens, took up the challenge, providing Lanka with six studies as proof that the measles virus did indeed exist. When Lanka claimed that these studies did not meet the evidence needed to claim the prize, Bardens took him to court. The (lower) court sided with Bardens and ordered payment of the prize.

But Lanka took the case to the Supreme Court, where the judge decided in his favor and ordered the plaintiff to bear all procedural costs. Lanka was able to show that the six studies misinterpreted "ordinary constituents of cell" as part of the suspected measles virus.

According to Lanka, decades of consensus-building processes have created a model of a measles virus that doesn't actually exist: "To this day, an actual structure that corresponds to this model has been found neither in a human, nor in an animal. With the results of the genetic tests, all thesis of existence of measles virus has been scientifically disproved."

The existence of a contagious measles virus justified the development of the measles vaccine, which has earned the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars over a forty-year period. But if such a microorganism does not exist, said Lanka, "This raises the question of what was actually injected into millions of German citizens over the past decade. According to the judgment by the Supreme Court, it may not have been a vaccine against measles."

But what about measles parties? What about successful attempts by parents to infect their  children with the common childhood diseases like measles, chick pox, and mumps? And what about sexually transmitted disease (STD) like syphilis -- said to be a disease that the Europeans contracted from the Native Americans? The mystery of childhood illnesses and sexually transmitted diseases will be addressed in chapter 7.

An P again: Definitely, Dr. Cowan's book is one that needs to be read. I highly recommend it.

I'll make a couple of notes:

1. First, Stefan Lanka is working on a long, involved experiment, one definitely involving a control group (as many Covid experiments didn't), that will finally and scientifically prove viruses don't cause disease. As I understand it, he's about 2/3s of the way through this effort. Lanka started out as a virologist but no longer calls himself that. Some important virologists in past decade or so have confessed their profession is in deep trouble, on many levels, and Lanka often speaks of those problems. There were problems with Pasteur and Koch 100 years ago, after all. They had fierce critics, who, though long forgotten, are being read again.
2. Secondly, note Lanka's phrase "decades of consensus-building processes". The truth is, most "scientists" today are either technicians or hacks, "hacks" meaning anyone, politician, artist, scientist, whatever, who are just in it for the retirement benefits. People "go into science" for a number of reasons, but it can be a very boring, tedious field. I've personally known two scientists in genetics, who, bored out of their wits, strove to keep their jobs. One had a family and no spouse and so kept her job, the other quit and went into something quite different. My point is: when the talk of "scientists" and "decades of consensus-building" surface, we're not necessarily talking about real scientists. Consider some truly famous scientists: Einstein, first and foremost, but also Richard Feynman and Kary Mullis. Or Robert Oppenheimer. Or the man I often refer to who thought up plate tectonics, Alfred Wegener. Wegener spent a great deal of time out in the field. (He actually died in the field, in Greenland in 1930, trying to bring help to others.) One could go on. In fact, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch must be included in my list. They, too, went against the establishment of their days, and if time proves them wrong, they nonetheless stand out. My point is these guys are very different from the usual faceless, "hack" "scientist" navigating the warren of academia or big corporations and who are building "decades of consensus".
   

So what to call them? Technicians. Techs  are not scientists. I suspect there is no such thing as a computer scientist, for by definition they're technicians. Same thing with most medical doctors: "body techs", you might say. Certainly ANY review of the great scientists of the past will demonstrate that they weren't the go-along-to-get-along type of guys. They often went against the grain. Pasteur and Koch as well as Mullis and Feynman. Einstein, certainly. Fought against the establishment of their days. So often did that happen in science history that it became a sort of cliché in novels and movies.

Maybe Stefan Lanka is such a one. Only time will tell.

But remember the name. Stefan Lanka.

All the best,

An Préachán