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 95% to 98% chance of healing for cancer.^[1] The Swiss Cancer League described Hamer's approach 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^[2].

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 Hamer's license to practice medicine was revoked in 1986 by a court judgment in Germany and this reconfirmed in 2003.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.^[3] 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 moved to Norway^[2][4].

[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.^[5]

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]",^[6]

Two months after his son's death, Hamer detected in himself a testicular cancer, which he had operated on^[2].

[edit] GNM

Sometime after the death of his son Dirk, Hamer began to develop his GNM, which can be summarized in its “five biological laws”^[2]:

• 1st law (“Iron Rule”): Severe diseases originate from a shock event which is lived by the individual as very difficult, highly acute, dramatic and isolating. The shock’s psychological conflict content determines the location of the appearance of a focus of activity in the brain that can be seen in a CT scan as a set of concentric rings, as well as the corresponding location of the disease in the body. The subsequent development of the conflict determines the development of the brain focus and the disease.

• 2nd law (Two phased nature of disease): A patient who has not solved their conflict is in the first, active conflict phase, where the sympathetic nervous system predominates and which manifests as a “cold disease” accompanied by cold skin and extremities, stress, weight loss and sleep disorders. If they manage to solve it, they enter a second, post-resolution healing phase, with a predominance of the parasympathetic nervous system, commonly diagnosed as a separate “warm” (rheumatic, infectious, allergic, etc.) disease. This second phase is the one which usually entails more risks, and a complete cure only comes upon its completion. In some circumstances, not solving the conflict but downgrading it to a reasonably livable level may be preferable than facing the second phase.

• 3rd law (Ontogenetic system of diseases): Conflicts which have their focus either in the brain stem (which controls body tissues that derive from the endoderm) or the cerebellum (which controls part of the tissues that derive from the mesoderm) show cell multiplication in the conflict active phase, and destruction of the resulting tumors in the healing phase. Cerebrum directed conflicts (affecting the rest of mesoderm derived tissues and all ectoderm derived ones) show either cell decrease (necroses, ulcers) or function impairment or interruption in the active phase, and the replenishment of the damaged tissues in the healing phase can also be diagnosed as a tumor.

• 4th law (Ontogenetic system of microbes): Microbes do not cause diseases but are used by the body, following the brain orders, to optimize the healing phase, provided that they are available. Fungi and mycobacterium work on endoderm originated tissues and cerebellum-directed mesoderm derived tissues. Bacteria work on all mesoderm derived tissues and viruses on ectoderm derived ones.

• 5th law (“Quintessence”): Each pair of diseases as described above is a “special meaningful program of nature” developed along evolution to allow organisms to override everyday functioning in order to deal with particular emergency situations.

According to Hamer, many traditional treatments do not have any primary value and are 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^[2]. 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.^[7][2]

These anomalies in brain CT scans have been identified by radiologists to be ring artifacts.^[8] 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^{[citation needed]}.

[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^{[citation needed]} . 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.

Olivia and their parents still support Hamer's method and have their own web site which explains the matter from their perspective.^[7][4]

[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 "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.^[9] Moreover, he claims that Rabbi Esra Iwan Götz, member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, has confirmed his accusations.^[4]

[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 claims to have developed Hamer's theories, including his "biological laws". Hamer himself feels like they stole his concepts.^[10]
• Total Biology, similar ideas developed by Dr. Claude Sabbah of Marseille, France, influenced significantly by the findings of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer.^[11]
• 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

• Hamer's official English language site
• New site about the GNM
• 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)