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Novak Djokovic and his biotech investment or the fairy tale of the “right” corona research
Invested in pseudo-medicine: tennis star Novak Djokovic.
Novak Djokovic, tennis player and vaccine refuser, has reportedly invested in a “biotech” company. He is doing “real” corona research, so to speak. This is nonsense.
A bizarre message is currently making the rounds on the Internet: Novak Djokovic, the tennis player and vaccination refuser who has been expelled from Australia, has invested in a “Danish biotech company”. The unvaccinated person, probably out of conviction, is therefore doing quasi “correct” corona research. In a strange mixture of comment and report, masses of click-hunting distributors soon constructed an apparent paradox: On the one hand, it seems, Djokovic is an opponent of vaccination. On the other hand, he invests a fortune in supposed “biotech” research.
This is nonsense.
Because if anything is perfectly suited to proving obscure, pseudoscientific ideas that Djokovic is said to be close to, it would be precisely this commitment to fake research. The supposed biotech company, which names the long-retired professor of IT and electrical engineering Irena Cosic, who lives in Australia, as its chief scientist, is dedicated to a long-known form of pseudomedicine.
The humbug doctrine of bioresonance
Their “Resonant Recognition Model” is very similar to the humbug theory of bioresonance, in which an obscure cloud of fields, vibrations and frequencies is supposed to erase allergies, among other things, and otherwise somehow heal or at least diagnose everything and everyone.
The method has long been banned in some countries, but in our case it is excluded from the catalog of health insurance benefits – and, one can openly admit it in this case – a fairly exact equivalent of painting gray horses black for the horse market. The latter is called classic: horse deception.
Not long ago, the Mainz medical professor Walter Dorsch provided entertaining evidence of the bizarre character of this strange fake medicine when he checked the health of damp cloths and a slice of meat loaf using commercially available resonance apparatus. Both showed vigorous, largely identical bone growth.
Something with quanta
Irena Cosic and company are now getting ready not to wipe out evil vibration fantasies from sick people, but viruses and bacteria. In a mission statement last year, they announced their intention to use “optical nanoparticles that vibrate at known electromagnetic frequencies” to treat “retroviruses including Covid-19”. And something with quanta.
However, the pseudo-scientific pamphlet not only suffers from the error, which is already recognizable to laypeople, of mistaking the disease Covid-19 for its pathogen, Sars-CoV-2. The virological total nonsense to consider Sars-CoV-2 to be a retrovirus is downright grotesque – a virus class that includes the AIDS pathogen HIV, but not corona viruses. And not remotely so. The only thing they both have in common is that they use RNA as a genetic material molecule.
And so the pseudo-paradox of the Djokovic investment becomes completely plausible again in the end – the apparent oddness of the “biotech” commitment is not at all. It fits seamlessly into the wild hodgepodge of medical superstitions that find many friends in the anti-vaccination scene.
