“Unfortunately, science has become political. The virus has become political. And I have said that I do not want to comment on the feasibility and proportionality of this. That is a political question.”
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck
“Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.”
Michael Ellner
“We can’t wait for mandatory vaccination to become unnecessary just because infection levels in the population are very high. Omicron as a kind of ‘dirty vaccination’ is not an alternative to a vaccination mandate.”
Karl Lauterbach
“When a doctor walks behind the coffin of his patient, sometimes the cause really is following the effect.”
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch
“The genome was considered to be the unchanging blueprint of human beings, determined at the beginning of our lives. Science must now abandon this idea. In reality, our genetic makeup is constantly changing.
Two years ago, 25 geneticists gathered at the University of California, Berkeley, to answer a seemingly simple question: What is a gene? However, the attempt to precisely define the basic concept of their field proved to be extremely difficult. The meeting of experts almost ended in disaster, recalls Karen Eilbeck, professor of human genetics at Berkeley and host of the roundtable: “We had hours of meetings. Everyone was yelling at each other.”
The dispute in Berkeley had little to do with researcher vanity. It was the first sign that the life sciences—still unnoticed by the public—were on the verge of a turning point. What researchers are uncovering in the chromosome strands of humans and animals is breaking with previous patterns of thinking in genetics. Much like at the beginning of the 20th century, when Einstein and his colleagues formed a new physical worldview, the age of relativistic genetics may now be dawning.
Medical research in particular is facing new challenges. Initial outlines are becoming apparent: the body and soul, their health, illness, development, and aging are subject to a genetic interplay whose complexity exceeds all previous ideas. Geneticists must abandon their image of a stable genome in which changes are pathological exceptions. Everyone’s genetic material is constantly undergoing change. The result: every organism, every human being, even every cell in the body is a genetic universe unto itself.”
Ulrich Bahnsen
“You’re just claiming that I haven’t been vaccinated, and I’ll leave it at that. In the meantime, I’ve come up with a phrase inspired by Olaf Scholz: ‘I am on a good and reasonable path to complying with 2G.’ That leaves everything open. Schmidt then remarked mockingly: “I don’t want to say any more about it, otherwise I’ll quickly get something thrown at my tin foil hat.””
Harald Schmidt
“Perhaps the following current example can best illustrate this point. We do not live in the clerical age, where lay people and clergy fought each other; nor do we live in the state-political age, when state officials and the people fought over democracy. The free growth area in the scientific age lies in a new pair of tensions, namely between research and knowledge. This pair of conflicts is still largely unclear.
We scholars all disguise ourselves as researchers, just as the old clergy behaved like saints in order to hold back the division between clergy and people. This does not change the fact that today the danger of the sciences becoming ossified is looming large.
Scholars are competent and therefore completely incapable of loving the overthrow of their virtue. They are science officials, and they always oppose amateurs. But since research is as much a part of science as the Holy Spirit is part of the Church, there is a great deal of pseudo-research competing with the progress of free research; and only the former is conscientiously supported by official bodies and foundations, because only this appears worthy of support to the professional officials of science.
Such harmful research acts according to the principle: Wash my fur, but don’t get me wet.
It researches cancer according to Pasteur’s outdated ideas, as if it were rabies.
It examines religion according to Wellhausen’s ideas, but because it bases its research on ancient authority, it is extensively funded.
As long as scholars and researchers both remain poor, genuine research has prospects. That was the case until 1900. Today, the prognosis for research is deteriorating because grateful peoples are generously funding “science.” Thus, power is shifting to the side of the knowledgeable, against the researchers.
Our doctor factories and Rockefeller fellows are eloquent witnesses to this.”
Eugen Rosenstock
“If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.”
B. J. Palmer
“We must be aware that even people who have been vaccinated three times can transmit the disease… It is obvious that we are a long way from the 95 percent efficacy we achieved against the original virus.”
Ugur Sahin
“Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism. Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.