Tobias Ochsenbein, Viktor Dammann
«Dr. Coldwell is certain that almost all those vaccinated will be dead by September. ” This absurd prognosis was made by the German pop singer and corona denier Michael Wendler (49) in August of this year in his Telegram channel.
Dr. Leonard Coldwell (63) is a German conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed healer. His real name is Bernd Klein and he was once a motivational speaker. At some point he went to the USA and called himself Dr. Coldwell.
Cancer cure rate of 92.3 percent
In Coldwell’s biography, which he wrote himself, it says: “Dr. C. ” be the world’s largest authority on healing methods for cancer. Coldwell advertises a cancer cure rate of 92.3 percent on various websites. And says that he has already successfully cured 35,000 cancer patients – including his mother, who has cancer.
His hobby is the “Instinct Based Medicine System” (IBMS). The method says that the main cause of illness is mental and emotional stress. Every cancer, he claims, can therefore be cured in a few weeks. The supposed recipe for success: positive thinking is healthy. Stress makes you sick.
However, he never gives reliable evidence for these claims. Not even at the request of Blick. Anyway, he ignores the questions put to him.
Car bombs and hit men
Research on YouTube makes it clear that he can do anything other than remain silent. Dr. Coldwell is a shrewd speaker. As befits a guru, he emotionalises and inspires, swears people to his cause. His favorite subjects: the lies of doctors, industry and politics. Coldwell accuses the pharmaceutical industry of fraud. He even claims they fight him with car bombs and hit men.
Despite the bogus claims, “Dr. C. ” Trailers – also in Switzerland. In Lucerne, for example, three tight Coldwell disciples operate and offer IBMS coaching. On their website they pick up people in their desires and feelings. And they quote questionable pseudo-medical statements from Coldwell. For example: “With chemotherapy, the only question is which kills it first, cancer or chemotherapy.”
Former hotelier is a Swiss Coldwell disciple
One of these IBMS coaches is called Roland K. * (71). He was a successful hotelier in St. Moritz for 30 years. Even in hotel circles he was considered a gifted storyteller. A quality that has remained with him. On the website of the IBMS coaches he writes about himself: “I have coached so many clients and I can show the best results in all matters of life such as: depression, cancer, burnout, sexual problems, partnership problems, financial worries, etc.” Neither he nor his two comrades-in-arms provide evidence of this when Blick asks about it.
The well-known forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok (59) has to Dr. Coldwell and his Lucerne disciples published a video. In it he says: “The Lucerne coaches promise extremely positive chances of success, tell non-verifiable anecdotes and make the greatest promises of healing. Above all, however, numbers and apparently verifiable findings are put into the room that contradict any objective scientific knowledge. ” As someone who has survived severe cancer himself, Urbaniok says: “Sick people are more likely to jump on such offers and see them as the straw that can save them.”
According to Coldwell and other such coaches, the person is the reason for their problem – but also the only solution, says Urbaniok. «That is convenient for the counselors. Because if the healing – for whatever reason – comes to a favorable development, then that was the method. If it comes to a bad development, then it was the inability or the lack of will of the patient. “
Risk to patients
The health and social department of the canton of Lucerne sees no problem in the offer of the Lucerne IBMS coaches. The population can easily see that the offer is not a medical or therapeutic offer. In the canton of Lucerne there is no need for a permit for such services. Basically, the personal responsibility of the people who use such services applies. “Such offers are problematic if sick people are actively prevented by the providers from undergoing medically necessary treatment and their health is damaged as a result,” it continues. However, such indications do not exist at the current point in time.
Urbaniok sees it differently. In order to protect themselves legally, the IBMS people say that they do not heal, they only advise. At the same time, they claim they have the only effective cancer treatment. The medical methods, however, are all ineffective. According to Urbaniok, this creates a risk that patients will use effective medical therapies too late or not at all. The risk: serious damage to health.