Unsettling Science: The German Virologist Who Chose the Path Less Trodden

Unsettling Science: The German Virologist Who Chose the Path Less Trodden
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Andrew Davies
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Professor Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi was once a universally respected scientist who retired from the University of Mainz in 2012. There, he ran the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene. He also set up the first specialized virology department in Germany.

Most of his career was spent researching the human immune system, and in 1978, as a young scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany, he discovered a protein that attacks and damages cells by sinking into the cell membrane.

This vast experience led Bhakdi to question his government’s official stance on COVID-19 and, in December 2020, he accused Germany of having become a “health dictatorship.” More recently, he said the vaccine rollout was “the biggest and most horrible medical experiment on humankind—we are the guinea pigs.”

He was branded a conspiracy theorist for making “false statements,” and even the University of Mainz has disassociated itself from its former star professor. The Thai-German scientist was also accused of anti-Semitism for the way he criticized the mass vaccination program in Israel.

In a good illustration of how the scientific method on COVID-19 vaccine safety and much else has been reduced to “groupthink,” Bhakdi was once praised for challenging a previous vaccine for swine flu, which was produced in Germany by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

It was widely used in Sweden and Denmark from 2009 to 2010, and Bhakdi claimed that as much as 80 percent of the population there were inoculated with it. Under the brand name “Pandemrix,” it included an adjuvant known as AS03 to boost the body’s immune response.

I have previously written about this scandal, which resulted in about 120 children developing narcolepsy—a central nervous system disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness that’s an ongoing condition—after being vaccinated. Eventually they received some compensation.

Then, as now with the COVID jabs, young people were intentionally exposed to not-fully-tested vaccines, except this time, criticism of them is verboten and Bhakdi has been sidelined. He says with remorse, “One thing I have no sympathy for and will never forgive is the vaccination of children.”

Recently, he was interviewed by investigative reporter Kai Stuht for a documentary called “Können 100 Ärzte Lügen?” (Can 100 Doctors Be Lying?)

Stuht asked Bhakdi if there were similarities between the swine flu vaccination and the COVID-19 vaccines, and Bhakdi was emphatic.

“Not at all—they are not comparable,“ he said. ”This current vaccine is gene-based, and that is something completely new. They are not injecting a dead virus but a sort of ‘living thing,’ which causes your cells to work for it.”

The calmly spoken 75-year-old microbiologist is now an activist.

“We founded the Doctors for COVID Ethics (D4CE) in April of last year,“ Bhakdi told Stuht. ”It is an international consortium of people with different areas of expertise. We held the first symposium online in July because it became clear to everyone that there was something terribly wrong with this whole story.”

When the British Medical Journal published an article in November 2021 stating that an important clinical study by Pfizer had been fabricated, Bhakdi assumed that would bring about a change.

“It became clear that the vaccinations don’t protect, and data had been falsified in order to be able to say the jabs work,” he said.

But nothing changed, so D4CE held another symposium on Dec. 10, 2021, when German pathologist Dr. Arne Burkhardt presented evidence to show that COVID-19 vaccinations were harmful and could cause death.
Professor Kevin McConway, who isn’t a virologist but a statistician at The Open University in the UK, has criticized the small number of cases in Burkhardt’s study.

“So, what we have is that 14 out of 15 people, not typical of those who died after vaccination, had, in the opinion of one pathologist, signs that indicated that the vaccine may have had a role in their death, even though a previous pathologist or coroner did not agree with that conclusion,” he said.

Yet the study did spur Danish politician Mads Palsvig to send out thousands of warning notices in his country, particularly to parliamentarians and the media, to stop promoting the vaccines or face possible future criminal prosecution.

Bhakdi noted how important that was.

“One week later, on the front page of the Danish Ekstra Bladet newspaper, three publishers asked for forgiveness for not having been more critical in their journalistic work,“ he said. ”That was wonderful.”
Afterward, a very significant article appeared in The Lancet.

“The impact of vaccination on community transmission of circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be not significantly different from the impact among unvaccinated people,” the article reads.

From this, Bhakdi called for an end to COVID-19 vaccinations.

“Therefore, there is no reason whatsoever anymore for vaccination,“ he said. ”There is no pandemic. Hospitals are not full. Intensive care units are not overcrowded with corona patients. There is no emergency, so there is no more reason for emergency measures, especially since it has been admitted that the vaccinations do not protect.”

According to the COVID-19 Civic Freedom Tracker, 110 countries still have COVID-19 emergency declarations in place that impose strict restrictions on their populations, including mandates that force people to get vaccinated.

A new D4CE seminar, set for March 18, will present the latest research of Burkhardt and his team. They say the research identifies spike proteins from the vaccines remaining in human tissue and in the vascular system for much longer than the normal one to two days.

“One time, he [Burkhardt] found the spike protein in a person who had died, but that person had been vaccinated four months earlier,” Bhakdi said.

He noted why that’s important.

“In the last symposium, we didn’t have the proof, but we now have it,“ Bhakdi said. ”Burkhardt has found these spikes not just in the bloodstream, but in all organs—in the heart, in the spleen, everywhere.

“Once the cell absorbs the mRNA, it gets messed up, because the mRNA instructs the cell to produce spike proteins. This means the normal functions of the cell cannot be done because it is being made to do something else.

“Not only can the cell not fulfill its proper function, but by putting the new product, which is the spike protein, outside of the cell, it is attracting antibodies. It is telling them, ‘Come and attack me,’ thereby making your immune system attack your own cells. It cannot be worse.

“If the cell itself is an immune cell, then it will get attacked by the other immune cells, and thus, it can destroy the immune system. It is what people now call ’mini-AIDS' or V-AIDS. This is the terrible thing about this vaccine. It can enter any cell. Any cell can take on this poison packet. Depending on which cells have taken it in, that’s where the destruction will appear, and nobody can know where and when it will happen.

“Cancer cells are constantly created within our body, but we have lymphocytes that recognize and destroy them. If we don’t have our cancer control cells, we get cancer very quickly. There are also sleeping bacteria, like the tuberculosis bacillus, for example. It sleeps in most people in the so-called Third World. I also have TB bacteria in me. If my control lymph cells are nonexistent, I get TB.”

According to Bhakdi, statistics reveal that if the vaccine leads to death, it will happen within seven days of receiving the vaccine. But more people will suffer lifelong damage to their nerves or to their heart, which is known as myocarditis.

“What is clear is that these vaccines can only harm—they cannot do any good,“ he said. ”It’s like smoking. If you smoke like a chimney, you don’t necessarily die of cancer, but there is a greater probability.”

In Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” he wrote:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference.

Bhakdi and his colleagues are hoping that by taking the unpopular route, they might also make “all the difference.”

German to English translation by Ingrid Davies.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Andrew Davies is a UK-based video producer and writer. His award-winning video on underage sex abuse helped Barnardos children’s charity change UK law, while his documentary “Batons, Bows and Bruises: A History of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,” ran for six years on the Sky Arts Channel.
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