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[[Thomas Deichmann]] is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental [[LM network]]. He is the editor of the German on line magazine [[Novo Argumente]] and has contributed to the [[London International Research Exchange]], [[Institute of Ideas]] events and [[Spiked]].
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[[File:Thomas Deichmann.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Thomas Deichmann in 2008]]
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He has also co-authored a book on biotechnology with Thilo Spahl, Das Populare Lexikon der Gentechnik: "berraschende Fakten von Allergie" ber Killerkartoffel bis Zelltherapie (The Popular Lexicon of Genetic Engineering: Surprising Facts from Allergy and Killer Potatoes to Cell Therapy), which has been published by Novo.
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[[Thomas Deichmann]] (born 1962) is the founder and Editor in Chief of the bi-monthly German magazine [[Novo Argumente|''NovoArgumente'']], published in Frankfurt.<ref name="battle">Battle of Ideas, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/speaker_detail/27/ Thomas Deichmann], accessed 16 March 2011.</ref>
  
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In April 2003 he was one of the speakers at a [http://www.instituteofideas.com/Events/current/docs/genetics.html Genes and Society 'festival'] in London organised by the the [[Institute of Ideas]], where he was involved in debate on GM crops and the Third World.  
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==Background==
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Deichmann has worked as a freelance journalist and researcher for numerous papers across Europe, including ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', ''Focus'', ''Die Zeit'', ''Financial Times Deutschland'', ''Die Welt'', ''Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin'', ''Die Tageszeitung'', ''Der Standard'' (Austria), ''Profil'' (Austria), ''Weltwoche'' (Switzerland), ''De Groene Amsterdammer'' (Netherlands), ''Trouw'' (Netherlands), ''De Morgen'' (Belgium), ''Helsingborgs Dagblad'' (Sweden), ''Spiked'' (UK).  
  
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Deichmann has also contributed articles to Novo and [[Spiked]] on Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer who has been in a long-running legal battle with Monsanto over patent issues and GM crops. In his [http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DAA7.htm Spiked piece] Deichamnn chides the German media over what he claims is the inaccuracy of their reporting: 'there is a striking difference between the issues raised by the case and the way Schmeiser has been represented in sections of the German media - which indicates that, in the GM debate in Europe, scaremongering often has more purchase than science.'       
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Formerly interested in Yugoslavian civil war, he has recently been writing mostly on modern biotechnology.<ref name="battle"/>
  
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This is not the first time Deichmann has taken the media to task. Prior to his reinvention as a GM expert, Deichmann was best known for an article on Bosnia he contributed to LM, in which he accused British journalists of fabricating evidence of imprisonment and atrocities at the Trnopolje camp in Bosnia. As a result of the article, LM was sued out of existence with the court finding, as did war crimes tribunals at the Hague, that Trnopolje was 'a camp where Muslims were undoubtedly imprisoned' and where 'many were beaten, tortured, raped and killed by their Serb guards'. ([http://www.guardian.co.uk/itn/article/0,2763,184816,00.html High stakes in battle over Serbian guilt]) 
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==Record and Controversies==
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===LM Network===
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Deichmann is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental [[LM network]]. He is the editor of the German on line magazine [[Novo Argumente|''NovoArgumente'']] and has contributed to the [[London International Research Exchange]], [[Institute of Ideas]] events and [[Spiked]].
  
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Deichamnn also published an interview in LM with the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, who had by then been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity (see [http://www.guardian.co.uk/itn/article/0,2763,184815,00.html Poison in the well of history]). Deichmann also put in an appearance as the final defence witness at the trial in the Hague of Dusko Tadic. The war crimes tribunal clearly did not find Deichmann's evidence convincing as it convicted Tadic of crimes against humanity, including 'killings, beatings and forced transfers' of civilians, as well as a particularly horrific sexual mutilation. These crimes were found to have been committed in Trnopolje as well as at two other detention camps, Omarska and Keraterm. (see the [http://www.un.org/icty/tadic/trialc2/judgement/tad-tsj970714e.htm Tadic judgement]) 
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He has also co-authored a book on biotechnology with Thilo Spahl, ''Das Populäre Lexikon der Gentechnik: Überraschende Fakten von Allergie über Killerkartoffel bis Zelltherapie'' (''The Popular Lexicon of Genetic Engineering: Surprising Facts, from Allergy and Killer Potatoes to Cell Therapy''), which has been published by Novo.<ref name="battle"/>
  
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Deichmann also played a leading part in the RCP/LM front organisation the [[London International Research Exchange]] (LIRE), directed by fellow [[Living Marxism]] contributor [[Joan Phillips]]. LIRE and Living Marxism worked together to deny the genocidal nature of the conflict in Bosnia and to present Serbia as merely the West's latest whipping boy - a victim of Western imperialism. ([http://www.freeserbia.net/Documents/Lobby.html The Serbian Unity Congress and the Serbian Lobby: A Study of Contemporary Revisionism and Denial])   
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In April 2003 he was one of the speakers at a [http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/genes2003.html Genes and Society Festival] in London organised by the the [[Institute of Ideas]], where he was involved in debate on GM crops and the Third World.<ref>Institute of Ideas, [http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/genes2003.html Genes and Society Festival], 26-27 April 2003, accessed 16 March 2011.</ref>   
  
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One of Deichmann and Phillip's principal targets was the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Roy Gutman. In a [http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/cob_comuniques/letter_to_foreign_pol.html letter to the journal Foreign Policy], Michael Sells points out how Gutman's award-winning articles 'ultimately forced the closing of several notorious concentration camp complexes (Omarska-Keraterm, Manjaca, Trnoplilje).' Sells notes that if those who sought to undermine Gutman's credibility had succeeded, Omarska, the worst of the camps, 'may have operated for months, even years. How many would have perished there: 50,000, 80,000, 100,000?'  Sells draws a parallel with the second world war, 'The systematic killing of Jews in WW2 was known as early as 1942, but denials - very similar to the Joan Phillips reports - allowed people to persuade themselves that it couldn't be true, until it was too late.'   
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Deichmann has also contributed articles to Novo and [[Spiked]] on Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer who has been in a long-running legal battle with Monsanto over patent issues and GM crops. In his 2002 ''Spiked'' piece, Deichmann chides the German media over what he claims is the inaccuracy of their reporting: "[T]here is a striking difference between the issues raised by the case and the way Schmeiser has been represented in sections of the German media - which indicates that, in the GM debate in Europe, scaremongering often has more purchase than science."<ref>Deichmann, Thomas, "[http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DAA7.htm The Schmeiser story]," ''Spiked'', 10 October 2002, accessed 16 March 2011.</ref>
  
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According to German journalist Paul Stoop of the Berlin Tagesspiegel nobody had ever heard of Deichmann before the editor of Novo reinvented himself as a fully-fledged Bosnia expert (The [http://www.srpska-mreza.com/lm-f97/guardian-m12.html Guardian, 12 March 1997]) . As the battle of ideas over Bosnia has receded, Deichmann seems to have [http://www.instituteofideas.com/Events/current/docs/genetics.html reinvented as an expert commentator on biotechnology].  
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===Yugoslavian war===
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In 1992, a photograph of Bosnian prisoners behind the wire of Trnopolje concentration camp made front-page news as it confirmed Serbian 'ethnic cleansing'. Later in February 1997 , Deichmann wrote an article on his theory that the footage of the Serb-run detention camp taken by a team from the British Independent Television News (ITN) was designed to make the place look like a Nazi-style extermination camp, claiming that it was fake, that in reality the place was a collection centre for refugees.<ref>Deichmann, Thomas, "[http://www.iacenter.org/bosnia/deich.htm The picture that fooled the world], International Action Center, accessed 16 March 2011.</ref>
  
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In effect, Deichmann has been transformed from an expert exposer of 'myths' about Serb nationalist atrocities into an expert apologist for biotechnology. The platforms that have made this repackaging possible - Novo, Spiked and the IoI - are all part of the same network. However, when the IoI present him as, ''''Thomas Deichmann''' editor, Novo magazine and co-author of The Popular Lexicon of Gene Technology', there is nothing to indicate that Novo is a sister publication of LM or that  Deichmann's book was published by Novo's publishing house. This is an incestous and self-perpetuating world of undisclosed  affiliations in which truth is consistently subjugated to ideology.
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LM magazine where Deichmann published his theory about the 'fake' footage was sued for libel by ITN. The case went against LM, and the managize was forced to close in March 2000.<ref>''BBC'', "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/677481.stm ITN wins Bosnian war libel case]," 12 March 2000, accessed 16 March 2011.</ref>
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==Publications==
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*Ganten, Detlev, Thilo Spahl and Thomas Deichmann (2009) ''Die Steinzeit steckt uns in den Knochen: Gesundheit als Erbe der Evolution'', Piper Verlag Gmbh.
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*Deichmann, Thomas and Thilo Spahl (2003) ''Leben, Natur, Wissenschaft: Alles was man wissen muß'', Eichborn.
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*Spahl, Tilo and Thomas Deichmann (2001) ''Das populäre Lexikon der Gentechnik: Überraschende Fakten von Allergie über Killerkartoffel bis Zelltherapie'', Eichborn.
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==Resources==
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*Battle of Ideas, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/speaker_detail/27/ Thomas Deichmann], accessed 16 March 2011.
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*''BBC'', "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/677481.stm ITN wins Bosnian war libel case]," 12 March 2000, accessed 16 March 2011.
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*Deichmann, Thomas, "[http://www.iacenter.org/bosnia/deich.htm The picture that fooled the world], International Action Center, accessed 16 March 2011.
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*Deichmann, Thomas, "[http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DAA7.htm The Schmeiser story]," ''Spiked'', 10 October 2002, accessed 16 March 2011.
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*Institute of Ideas, [http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/genes2003.html Genes and Society Festival], 26-27 April 2003, accessed 16 March 2011.
  
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The ideological position of the Living Marxism network to which Deichmann belongs is that it is vital to support genetic engineering in order to champion 'science' and 'human endeavour', and that all restictions on genetic technologies or big business should be strenuously opposed.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 17:30, 14 November 2011

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Thomas Deichmann in 2008

Some sections of this page have been suspended pending further research.

Thomas Deichmann (born 1962) is the founder and Editor in Chief of the bi-monthly German magazine NovoArgumente, published in Frankfurt.[1]

Background

Deichmann has worked as a freelance journalist and researcher for numerous papers across Europe, including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Focus, Die Zeit, Financial Times Deutschland, Die Welt, Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Die Tageszeitung, Der Standard (Austria), Profil (Austria), Weltwoche (Switzerland), De Groene Amsterdammer (Netherlands), Trouw (Netherlands), De Morgen (Belgium), Helsingborgs Dagblad (Sweden), Spiked (UK).

Formerly interested in Yugoslavian civil war, he has recently been writing mostly on modern biotechnology.[1]

Record and Controversies

LM Network

Deichmann is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental LM network. He is the editor of the German on line magazine NovoArgumente and has contributed to the London International Research Exchange, Institute of Ideas events and Spiked.

He has also co-authored a book on biotechnology with Thilo Spahl, Das Populäre Lexikon der Gentechnik: Überraschende Fakten von Allergie über Killerkartoffel bis Zelltherapie (The Popular Lexicon of Genetic Engineering: Surprising Facts, from Allergy and Killer Potatoes to Cell Therapy), which has been published by Novo.[1]

In April 2003 he was one of the speakers at a Genes and Society Festival in London organised by the the Institute of Ideas, where he was involved in debate on GM crops and the Third World.[2]

Deichmann has also contributed articles to Novo and Spiked on Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer who has been in a long-running legal battle with Monsanto over patent issues and GM crops. In his 2002 Spiked piece, Deichmann chides the German media over what he claims is the inaccuracy of their reporting: "[T]here is a striking difference between the issues raised by the case and the way Schmeiser has been represented in sections of the German media - which indicates that, in the GM debate in Europe, scaremongering often has more purchase than science."[3]

Yugoslavian war

In 1992, a photograph of Bosnian prisoners behind the wire of Trnopolje concentration camp made front-page news as it confirmed Serbian 'ethnic cleansing'. Later in February 1997 , Deichmann wrote an article on his theory that the footage of the Serb-run detention camp taken by a team from the British Independent Television News (ITN) was designed to make the place look like a Nazi-style extermination camp, claiming that it was fake, that in reality the place was a collection centre for refugees.[4]

LM magazine where Deichmann published his theory about the 'fake' footage was sued for libel by ITN. The case went against LM, and the managize was forced to close in March 2000.[5]

Publications

  • Ganten, Detlev, Thilo Spahl and Thomas Deichmann (2009) Die Steinzeit steckt uns in den Knochen: Gesundheit als Erbe der Evolution, Piper Verlag Gmbh.
  • Deichmann, Thomas and Thilo Spahl (2003) Leben, Natur, Wissenschaft: Alles was man wissen muß, Eichborn.
  • Spahl, Tilo and Thomas Deichmann (2001) Das populäre Lexikon der Gentechnik: Überraschende Fakten von Allergie über Killerkartoffel bis Zelltherapie, Eichborn.

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Battle of Ideas, Thomas Deichmann, accessed 16 March 2011.
  2. ↑ Institute of Ideas, Genes and Society Festival, 26-27 April 2003, accessed 16 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Deichmann, Thomas, "The Schmeiser story," Spiked, 10 October 2002, accessed 16 March 2011.
  4. ↑ Deichmann, Thomas, "The picture that fooled the world, International Action Center, accessed 16 March 2011.
  5. ↑ BBC, "ITN wins Bosnian war libel case," 12 March 2000, accessed 16 March 2011.
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