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I'm Shea, and this week I learned that you can tell how evil a company is by how touching their super bowl commercial attempts to be.

Dur Uber Medicine

I mean, I’m pretty sure “uber” is German for something but the “dur” that’s there because… the people in this story. People who, having never admitted there is anything they don’t know—unless it’s to sell you on their next line of reasoning with nuisance-logic—want to sell heal you.

And so, it is my unique schadenfreude to introduce you to Germanic New Medicine’s “Dr.” Ryke Geerd Hamer.

Hamer, born 1935, is the founder of GNM, or German(ic) New Medicine. Following his death a number of people picked up GNM. Today I have a few clips from “Doctor” Melissa Sell. All her materials claim she’s a doctor but having given her site and socials a good once over, I can’t find that she’s ever been to school, much less medical school. I’m happy to be corrected, but insofar as I can tell, not only is she not a doctor, she barely plays one on YouTube.

But before all that, let’s take a jump over to Germany, and a step back to the 1980s...

So it’s 1981 and a German Doctor by the name of Hamer has discovered that “every DISEASE is caused by shock experience that catches us completely off guard.” And “how did he do this?” you might ask. Well, the answer is equal parts tragedy and stupidity. In 1953 Hamer started medical… and theological...studies at Tubingen Stift—a school owned and operated by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church. While this school has put some folks you may know, like Johannes Kepler, the astronomer the Kepler zone is named for, it also created a bunch of zealots and nazis. So that’s less great.

Speaking of Italian royalty, The Prince of Naples, Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria di Savoia, or Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy for short, the last prince of Italy, shot Hamer’s son, Dirk, to death in his sleep on the King’s Yacht, on August 8th, 1978. In the wee-hours of the night Vittorio discovered his yacht’s rubber dinghy had been used to go to another neighboring yacht. For reasons unknown, Vittorio armed himself with a rifle and attempted to board the other yacht. Not being a particularly agile pirate he awoke one of the yachts passengers and upon seeing them move, shot at them. He missed the passenger entirely, but mortally wounded the young Dirk, who he would later be filmed laughing about. The same film would be crucial evidence in the civil wrongful death case Dirk’s sister brought and won against the disposed prince.

Vittorio is a real stand up guy, who we’ll definitely hear more about in a coming episode. Aside from being a murderer he’s also quoted as saying Mussolini’s anti-Semitic laws were “not that terrible,” he frequently fought with other royals, and was eventually arrested for running a prostitution ring. So yeah, we’ll get there everyone

Back to our proper story, we now have a German theologian and doctor whose son was murdered by Italy's royal family. Of course, it never rains but it does pour, and just a few months after Dirk’s murder Hamer discovers he’s got prostate cancer… According to wikipedia and most of the summary-style sources I found, most of his German New Medicine sites and information say it was testicular cancer. Either way, dude has cancer and he blames it on the shock of hearing of his son’s death.

Not to minimize his grief or the tragedy of it all, but this was the “Eurika!”moment for German New Medicine. Hamer just knew, in his heartiest of hearts, and testiest of testicals, that these two events had a causal relationship. And so,