Based on these statements, a doctor from Hamburg, Dr. Med. Hahn-Godfrov, directed severe accusations against Mrs. Professor Oepen who in turn sued in court in two instances. The final judgment by the Higher Regional Court, Hamburg on the 18th of December 1986 was proven to be true as reported in the following report of the facts: “Mrs. Professor Oepen was only active as a paper doctor, she was an unrealistic theorist, possessed only reading knowledge and could only present paper knowledge.” And may a value judgment be permitted: “Mrs. Professor Dr. Oepen was incompetent, disseminated a deceptive impression of science or juristic standing. Her explanation in her works and lectures were unbalanced, aggressive, unfair and unfriendly and she represented a ‘Cuckoo’s egg in the nest of forensic medicine’. – Her works were not a subject of forensic medicine, but her private hobby. To have to represent Mrs. Oepen was an embarrassment for university medicine, embarrassing also for the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Marburg University and the Federal Medical Association, personal dealings and conversations with Mrs. Oepen were rather awkward. I encountered her on the 26th of March 1993 during a television program about Spiritual Healing on Südwest 3 (Nachtcafe). She attacked me and I retaliated by citing the judgment of the Higher Regional Court. An intense exchange of blows ensued, one that the moderator Wieland Bakes wasn’t too pleased about. He brought an end to it with the words: “I decided the rules of the game here.” This scene was – as expected – cut from the recording by him, so that it wasn’t televised. But I had recorded it with a small tape recorder and I played it back during two of my lectures later as an example of how television moderators manipulate their programs. Another opponent of everything paranormal was the science journalist, neurologist and psychiatrist Professor Dr. med. Hoimar von Ditfurth (died 1989). He was the moderator of the ZDF-ScienceJournal “Querschnitt”. This program gave him the opportunity to go into battle against everything he considered superstition. This included amongst other things astrology, the Uri Geller phenomenon, spiritual healing, in particularly that from the Philippines. In October 1982, he broadcast a movie titled “Das Geschäft mit dem Wunder”. Therein he tried to portrait the healers from the Philippines as frauds and this without exceptions. I was involved in this, because he pirated two scenes from my movie “Paranormale Heilmethoden auf den Philippinen” and included them in his movie. I included all the details of this in my brochure “Paranormale Heilmethoden auf den Philippinen” and they can be perused there. – I made a complaint against Ditfurth for copyright infringement, but I could not prevail and it was suggested that I chose the path of a private lawsuit. The last opponent that I will introduce here is the Commissioner for Sect and Ideology questions of the Bavarian regional Church a Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack (1935 – 1991). He was the one that is responsible for the row between myself and the rector of the University of Applied Sciences at Ravensburg. His main area of work was the battle against sects, in particular the Church of Scientology. He went into battle against them in court and they filed against him. They insulted one another. He wrote a series of books, amongst them “Hexenwahn und Aberglaube in der Bundesrepublik” and “Rendezvous mit dem Jenseits”. He reports about the various spiritistic groups in a relatively matter of fact fashion in these books. He says for instance on page 155:
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