ROBERT KOGON | 21 Nov 2023
This past September 21st, the German news agency epd – the news agency of the German Protestant Church – published a potentially explosive report titled ‘Coronavirus Vaccines: Doctors and Researchers Express Concerns‘. The concerns in question were, more precisely, about a possible link between mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines and rapidly-developing or “turbo” cancers.
Thus, we read, for instance:
The Munich-based immunologist Peter Schleicher is currently treating 1,000 patients in his medical practice. Around 30 of them have “turbo cancer”, as he says. This means that “the cancer grows incredibly quickly,” Schleicher told the Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd). He has never before had so many “turbo cancer patients” at the same time, he added.
According to Schleicher, all 30 patients were diagnosed with cancer within three months of their last coronavirus vaccination. He has long suspected that mRNA vaccines can impair the immune system, so that diseased cells in the body can no longer be effectively combated: “In my view, this explains why the tumours grow at lightning speed.”
And further on in the article:
“As early as autumn 2021, I suspected that the coronavirus vaccines could give rise to turbo cancer,” Ute Krüger told epd. The cancer epidemiologist, who specialised as a breast cancer pathologist at the Breast Cancer Centre of Oskar Ziethen Hospital in Berlin in 2004, is currently conducting research at Lund University in Sweden.
For some time now, she has been dealing with cancer patients the course of whose illness has been extremely strange, she says. The cancer specialist points, for instance, to a 70-year-old woman who had been living with metastatic breast cancer for several years: “Shortly after being vaccinated against COVID-19, the tumour growth in her liver exploded.” The patient died within a month.
The article also cites chemistry professors Andreas Schnepf of the University of Tubingen and Martin Winkler of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, who likewise expressed their worries about the dangers of the vaccines.
Within one week of publication, however, the report had been quietly withdrawn. The article has been preserved on the Wayback Machine here. But it has disappeared from the original URL on the website of the German Protestant Church newspaper, the Evangelische Zeitung. Under the same title, ‘Coronavirus Vaccines: Doctors and Researchers Express Concerns’ – even with the same publication date and time! – we now find a brief disclaimer instead of the article. This disclaimer begins as follows:
Here, there was previously a text about coronavirus vaccinations and alleged possible links to cancer illnesses. It was an agency text which came directly from the agency and which had not been edited [by us]. The editors had already distanced themselves from the text and the repeatedly-used term ‘turbo cancer’, which has gained notoriety from its use by so-called ‘Querdenker‘.
The term Querdenker is widely used in German public discourse to refer to opponents of Covid measures such as lockdowns and mass vaccination. ‘Quer-denker‘ literally means ‘oblique’ or ‘transverse’ thinker and has the connotation of non-conformist or dissident, i.e., someone who ‘thinks differently’. (Thus, the English ‘queer’ appears to be derived from the German quer or to share a common etymological root with it.) The term has somehow become a term of disparagement in contemporary German usage.
It should be noted that Germany’s “Protestant Newspaper”, needless to say, regularly runs articles from its Protestant news agency.
The disclaimer goes on to cite a ‘fact-check’ from Germany’s public health authority, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), which virulently rejects any link between the vaccines and cancer and indeed goes on the attack against those suggesting there is one:
Alluding to such fears is a targeted strategy of opponents of vaccination, which is used again and again. They try to create an association between vaccinations and cancer using invented notions like ‘turbo cancer’.
“There is no scientific basis whatsoever for this supposed relationship,” the RKI concludes. Oddly enough, the RKI ‘fact-check’ makes no specific reference to mRNA vaccines here, even though it is obviously such vaccines which are at issue in this context. It only mentions the mRNA vaccines in passing later on, in order to praise the “ingenious idea” of using mRNA technology to fight cancer.
It should be noted that the original epd article already included contrary opinion, including from the German regulatory agency, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which told the epd, somewhat elliptically, that it “has no indication that the COVID-19 vaccines authorised in Germany altered the human genome”.
Although the German public health authority is cited in the disclaimer, in response to a recent query by the German regional newspaper the Nordkurier, epd Editor-in-Chief Karsten Frerichs insisted that the agency had not come under any pressure from Government officials to withdraw the article, but merely reconsidered the wisdom of its publication after receiving inquiries from “private individuals”.
Peter Schleicher, the Munich-based immunologist cited in the article, calls its withdrawal “outrageous”, describing it as a “frontal assault on freedom of the press”. There is “a great deal of absolutely serious [scientific] literature which undergirds the suspicion” of a link between mRNA vaccines and cancer, he told the Nordkurier.
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Original article below
Corona vaccines: Doctors and researchers express concerns
By Pat Christ (epd)
Sep 21, 2023 7:39 am
It’s a diagnosis to fear: cancer. Thousands of German citizens receive them every year. According to the Center for Cancer Registry Data, more than 229,000 people in Germany died of cancer in 2021. “That is slightly less than in the previous two years, but more than in all years before 2019,” says the joint homepage of the Center for Cancer Registry Data and the Robert Koch Institute.
It is difficult to get more current figures than 2021. The German Cancer Research Center has not yet published any data for 2022.
The Munich immunologist Peter Schleicher currently looks after 1,000 patients in his medical practice. About 30 of them have “turbo cancer,” as he says. This means: “The cancer grows incredibly quickly,” Schleicher reported to the Evangelical Press Service (epd). He has never had so many “turbo cancer patients” at the same time.
According to Schleicher, the cancer was diagnosed in all 30 patients in the first quarter after their last corona vaccination. He has long suspected that mRNA vaccines can impair the immune system so that diseased cells in the body can no longer be effectively combated: “In my opinion, that explains why the tumors grow so quickly.”
This thesis surprises Caroline Mohr, press officer for the federal association “Women’s Self-Help for Cancer” in Bonn. “It doesn’t seem plausible to me that the numbers will have risen sharply from 2021 onwards due to the corona vaccination, because cancer is a disease that develops slowly,” she says. She considers a vaccination that leads to cancer after a few months to be “very unlikely”. If the vaccination had actually caused cancer after this short period of time, much larger parts of the vaccinated population would have been affected.
The Paul Ehrlich Institute in Darmstadt monitors the safety of vaccines. The state authority told the epd that it had no evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines approved in Germany changed the human genome.
“As early as autumn 2021, I suspected that the corona vaccines could cause turbo cancer,” said Ute Krüger to the epd. The cancer epidemiologist, who specialized as a breast cancer pathologist at the Oskar Ziethen Hospital Breast Cancer Center in Berlin in 2004, is currently conducting research at Lund University in Sweden.
She has been dealing with cancer patients for some time who have shown extremely strange progression. The cancer specialist refers to a 70-year-old woman who lived with metastatic breast cancer for several years: “Shortly after being vaccinated against Covid-19, the tumor growth in her liver exploded.” The patient died within a month.
Chemistry professor Andreas Schnepf from the University of Tübingen considers the corona vaccinations “to be much more dangerous than officially portrayed,” as he told the epd. This suspicion is also fueled by a scientific analysis published in August 2022 by Peter Doshi, pharmacology professor at the US University of Maryland and co-editor of the renowned “British Medical Journal”.
According to Martin Winkler, chemistry professor at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, there are now some scientific articles about the possible dangers and side effects of the corona vaccines. “Unfortunately, these articles do not find the resonance that reports about the alleged effectiveness of these substances find in public perception,” he told the epd.
Schnepf and Winkler want to publish their own study on the ingredients of the corona vaccines. To do this, as they say, they need data from manufacturers. So far they have not had any success with their requests. “We cannot carry out an analysis without the requested data,” said Schnepf. (2247/09/21/2023)
