“Case study: The Lübeck vaccine” by NunoSempere

This is a link post. Winfried Stöcker is a German doctor. After a career developing immunization technologies, he sells Euroinmun to to Perkin Elmer, a US megacorp, for $1.3B; his own majority stake would be worth $600M, so after taxes a German magazine estimated his net worth at circa $300M. After selling the company, he makes a variety of investments, like buying a nearby airport, and continues working on his own, smaller lab, Labor Stöcker. He also donates to the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), a German far right party, and positions himself as being against more immigration. Come COVID, the guy realizes that he has the relevant expertise, and in March 2020 develops a vaccine in his personal lab. He tests this vaccine on himself, and later on family and employees. After some experiments, he becomes sure of the vaccine's efficacy and harmlessness, as it uses the same [...] --- First published: July 5th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QdLwsESrfD5q6BTsk/case-study-the-luebeck-vaccine --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.