German anti-vax nutjob ordered by court to pay €100,000 after offering sum to anyone who could prove - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31864218[/url] [quote]A German biologist who offered €100,000 (£71,350; $106,300) to anyone who could prove that measles is a virus has been ordered by a court to pay up. Stefan Lanka, who believes the illness is psychosomatic, made the pledge four years ago on his website. The reward was later claimed by German doctor David Barden, who gathered evidence from various medical studies. Mr Lanka dismissed the findings. But the court in the town of Ravensburg ruled that the proof was sufficient. Reacting to the verdict by the court in the southern town, Mr Lanka said he would appeal. "It is a psychosomatic illness," he told regional paper Suedkurier. "People become ill after traumatic separations." [/quote]

[quote]A German biologist[/quote] ....are quotes needed here, because a biologist not understanding micro-organisms is scary [quote]"It is a psychosomatic illness," he told regional paper Suedkurier. "People become ill after traumatic separations."[/quote] unless he obtained his degree 200 years ago, how does one even make this claim today while keeping a straight face

He's right, it's all in the mind. I used to have a really bad shellfish allergy that caused my entire body to swell up at just one shrimp but I managed to beat it through sheer willpower now I can eat an entire lobster, shell included

just doing a little search of this guy, in the 90s (long after HIV had been identified) he published a few papers claiming HIV is an artifact of socioeconomic factors and a product of the mind, not of a virus which had not been identified in the body. ya he's fucking nuts

i'm very glad that there is an increase in scrutiny against quack medicine as of late

The Toxx clause of Germany.

Come the fuck on, even Jenny McCarthy can admit it's a fucking virus.

I hope this "offer" can happen several times. I hope several people prove measles is a virus and he has to pay several 100,000's :v:

I bet cancer and AIDS are all just figments of our imagination. Maybe if we think real hard, they'll go away? I didn't think so. Pay up, doc.

Gays are a figment of our imagination I prayed away the gays and they don't exist anymore

[QUOTE=Sableye;47316113]....are quotes needed here, because a biologist not understanding micro-organisms is scary unless he obtained his degree 200 years ago, how does one even make this claim today while keeping a straight face[/QUOTE] Seriously. I don't believe that this guy has taken even a 100 level biology course.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;47316812]Gays are a figment of our imagination I prayed away the gays and they don't exist anymore[/QUOTE] It's true, I don't exist anymore.

The problem with people like this making claims like that is that they're too closed minded to ever pay up. You could stick their eyes to an electron microscope and literally show them the viral particles, yet they'd still claim you're full of shit. Anti-vaxxers in general are stubborn, stupid, bull-headed shitsmears that refuse to listen to anything that doesn't support their beliefs. It's pointless to even try to debate anything with them. From their POV, they're right, you're wrong, end of discussion.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;47316812]Gays are a figment of our imagination I prayed away the gays and they don't exist anymore[/QUOTE] Are you serious? :P

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;47316812]Gays are a figment of our imagination I prayed away the gays and they don't exist anymore[/QUOTE] So [i]that's[/i] why I woke up today feeling like I just didn't exist.

Anti vaxxers will maintain that this is a conspiracy being covered up by German government to keep the sheeples sleepy.

Limbs will grow back if you wish for it hard enough!

[QUOTE=Dr.C;47316118]He's right, it's all in the mind. I used to have a really bad shellfish allergy that caused my entire body to swell up at just one shrimp but I managed to beat it through sheer willpower now I can eat an entire lobster, shell included[/QUOTE] I'm actually allergic to shrimp, I've heard it's pretty fucking good too.

This guy actually thinks that no harmful viruses exist [QUOTE]Lanka is a supporter of " Perth Group" AIDS denialists with the view that no viruses would exist that cause disease. AIDS is not caused by a virus, but AIDS was an unnecessary invention to open up new markets for chemotherapy. With the death staging of this alleged sexual and blood - disease "HIV / AIDS " health industry get a chance to try chemotherapeutic agents in homosexual men with no reproductive activity . The H5N1 bird flu is not caused , according to Lanka, by a virus. Rather, it is a strategy of poultry companies, that can not recover in times of economic crisis at the expense of small businesses and the state. Modern medicine he describes as chief support of dictatorships and undemocratic governments. [1 ] [I][B]Translated from a german article[/B][/I][/QUOTE] Take away his degree

[QUOTE=Lawligagger;47318073]I'm actually allergic to shrimp, I've heard it's pretty fucking good too.[/QUOTE] Shrimp taste like ocean dirt. You're missing literally nothing.