In 2020 and 2021 Bhakdi became a prominent source of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the pandemic was "fake" and that COVID-19 vaccines were going to decimate the world's population.
14 Facts About Sucharit Bhakdi
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Sucharit Bhakdi was a professor at the University of Mainz, where he was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene.
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In 2021 Sucharit Bhakdi's publisher broke off relations following the appearance of an online video in which Sucharit Bhakdi made antisemitic comments.
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Sucharit Bhakdi studied medicine at the University of Bonn from 1963 to 1970, during part of which he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service.
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Sucharit Bhakdi worked for a while as a private assistant to the internal medicine specialist Walter Siegenthaler.
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Sucharit Bhakdi spent a further year in Copenhagen and became C3 professor of medical microbiology in 1987 before being appointed to the University of Mainz in 1990.
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From 1972, Sucharit Bhakdi researched the functioning of the body's non-specific defenses at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg.
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Sucharit Bhakdi contributed to a better understanding of the mechanisms with which the large molecules of the complement system in the blood render exogenous substances harmless.
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In 1978 Sucharit Bhakdi discovered a protein that attacks and damages cells by sinking into the cell membrane, resulting in the formation of a pore.
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Sucharit Bhakdi was Editor in Chief of Medical Microbiology and Immunology from 1990 to 2012.
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Sucharit Bhakdi has made a number of false statements about the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the pandemic is a "fake", that face masks and quarantines are "nonsense" and that the COVID-19 vaccines are deadly and will decimate the global population.
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Sucharit Bhakdi has been otherwise criticised for his theses on the COVID-19 pandemic; according to Medical Tribune, they are considered unscientific by a majority of experts.
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In 2021, Sucharit Bhakdi was a founder of the new German political party dieBasis, which emerged out of the "Querdenken" political movement, standing as a candidate in the 2021 German federal election in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Sucharit Bhakdi was criticised by antisemitism commissioners for the states of Berlin and Baden-Wurttemberg.