I’m not familiar with the context surrounding this controversy over pathologists researching patients who received the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. I’m hoping that German readers who know more will weigh in on the issue in the comments.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the German-language service of the Epoch Times:
Reutlinger Pathology stops research on COVID-vaccinated people
After it was recently announced that the pathological examinations of COVID-vaccinated people will continue even after the death of Prof. Arne Burkhardt in Reutlingen, there is now an abrupt reversal. Late in the evening of August 14th, The Epoch Times received the sudden and unexpected news: “Pathology in Reutlingen is closed with immediate effect.”
Prof. Walter Lang, who had agreed to take over the medical direction of the research, is no longer available for the project.
The reason given was “legal pressure to fight through the dismissals of employees before the labor court” by the Association of Doctors and Scientists for Health, Freedom and Democracy (MWGFD). The association had supported the pathological examinations with donations.
MWGFD threatens to sue
In addition, the MWGFD, on whose board of directors is the well-known microbiologist Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, had threatened Prof. Lang with a lawsuit through a lawyer. As can be seen from the legal letter available to the Epoch Times, it was about the surrender of the laboratory equipment. These were given to Prof. Burkhardt by the MWGFD for research purposes.
The lawyer for MWGFD asserted the ownership rights of his clients “after the business basis had ceased to exist” as a result of Burkhardt’s death. The value of the medical-technical laboratory equipment is estimated at €132,220.90. Alternatively, Prof. Lang was offered the purchase of the equipment.
According to insider circles, this was the last straw that finally broke the camel’s back after months of quarrels with the MWGFD.
In a press release on August 9, the MWGFD announced that a new site for pathology examinations would be built. This was justified by the fact that the premises of the Reutlingen laboratory were part of the estate of the late Prof. Burkhardt.
The society has found an institute that will act as an intermediary to the existing pathological institutions and will have modern telepathology at its disposal so that the work can continue according to the methods used by Prof. Burkhardt.
Afterword from the translator:
I wonder from which direction the pressure came that made Dr. Lang fold? A rogue who thinks that evil is afoot…
“to fight through” is misleading for “durchzufechten” .
Compare, “to fight to get the dismissals approved by a labour court”.
I suspect that the MWGFD was trying to get hold of the lab equipment they had “given” (so this was only a redeemable loan to Burkhardt?) and found that getting the employees of the lab sacked was a good way to do it, maybe because the saving in salaries would allow MWGFD to buy new equipment if Lang kept on refusing to hand over the existing stuff.
But what legal grounds underly such sackings is not stated. Epoch Times is being very cute about this, given that it has a copy of the legal letter and writes it has access to “insiders”, why is that?
Quite sad, as Lang and Burkhardt were a good team at the outset in mid-2021
I wasn’t aware of this case but I also can’t quite shake off the suspicion that ET here is a wee bit short on background information which might be found in the documents it claims to have.
Going through various articles and press releases at the MWGFD website, I haven’t found a hint where the pressure against Prof. Lang might come from, either. Both professors are/were retired and therefore free from having to follow directions set by academic institutions employing them. I wonder if Prof. Lang might be able to be contacted, i.e. he surely is but if the influx is too much or hostile, any sane person would have to shield him-/herself from dealing with it personally. On the other hand, it’s one of those situations where no answer or a non-committal one also can provide information.
The graphene researcher Martinelli was found dead in Mexico a couple of weeks back, see La Quinta Columna video obituary.
The US pharma patent analyst Karen Kingston has been missing since August 9, no sign of life. I viewed an agitated video of hers holding statements about poisonings and fear of murder that she made from Mexico just before that.
How free is Lang? As a retired German prof. Lang was a Beamter who is now drawing a state pension. It has happened before, notably against leftist public servants in the 1980s. that the then conservative anti-Warsaw Pact German govt. stripped leftist retirees of their pensions or reduced them.
Threatening Lang with pension removal or reduction is more discreet than killing him.
See Diana West’s take on Karen Kingston here.
The stripping of state pensions can only and did, in the case of some former GDR functionaries, follow a criminal trial with a guilty verdict. Iirc, it was used against those who gave the shooting orders at the border that led to the killing of a number of people who attempted to flee. The added difficulty with those cases was that they had to be found guilty under then-applicable law, i.e. that of the GDR at the time. You cannot apply later legislation retroactively. You can say there is a possibility of political influence in every trial, especially such high-profile ones, but it’s high risk even for the state to get this through if they attempted this on trumped-up (no pun intended) charges just to silence someone. A lot is rotten in this state but it, still, is not totally gone. They sometimes abuse psychiatrical judgements to remove public servants from office and even imprison them, but this doesn’t work with retirees. I don’t like giving up and sliding into conjecture before all possible information sources are exhausted.
Your statement about me indulging in conjecture in regard of State pensions is not borne out by the experience of Berufsverbote against leftists esp. in Bavaria. Possibly you are too young to remember them and have not read of them.
I admit that now that the Right, as shown on this website too has discovered Freedom of Speech all of a sudden, such 1980s State repression of leftists in Germany by crony capitalist politicians you worshipped until they fell into Schwab’s deep pockets is embarrassing.
Good news, Epoch Times quotes Lang as saying on 17.08 that he can work in the lab until at least Dec. 2023:
“Inzwischen hat sich die Lage entspannt. Am 17. August informierte Prof. Lang die Epoch Times darüber, dass sich ein Sponsor gemeldet hat, sodass der Pathologe das Reutlinger Institut bis Ende Dezember 2023 uneingeschränkt nutzen kann.
“https://www.epochtimes.de/gesellschaft/wie-geht-es-weiter-mit-dem-pathologischen-labor-reutlingen-a4377641.html?utm_source=nl-morning-regs&src_src=nl-morning-regs&utm_campaign=nl-morning_2023-08-20&src_cmp=nl-morning_2023-08-20&utm_medium=email&est=7W%2FD1Kgi4oZF1Gu3E9ccVgyRMjGTtT5OIfFrdJGbqu4z%2B%2FP6HlGZq4L5MuI%3D#kommentare
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This is a misunderstanding, I meant conjecture in regards to whether such threats might have been used against Prof. Lang to discourage him from further activities, before we know that we can’t find out more. I also cannot mention in one short post all instances where the state has done this, only the most high-profile one as example that this needs to follow a criminal trial which is not risk-free for the state to abuse. If they really need to get rid of someone, as mentioned, they’ll obtain a psychiatric diagnosis and have them warded (e.g. the Gustl Mollath case which became widely known; and I’ve been around to witness them do it at the lowest levels of public servants’ hierarchy to a school teacher who was not crazy at all but couldn’t shut his piehole about certain machinations.)
I also found the message you quoted last, that the shutdown is temporary and only due to the need to relocate their lab, while the article above and the afterword suggested that he folded to pressures. I guess we’ll see in due time if he gets to continue or if there are further obstacles.
Interesting footage out of Maui:
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