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Fritzsche also operates a pharmalobby blog www.cam-media-watch.de, whose imprint also lists [[Harald Walach]]. Walach holds an endowed chair funded by Heel, a large producer of homeopathics, which in turn supports Fritzsche's CAM Media.Watch blog. The blog maintained by Walach's [[Institut für transkulturelle Gesundheitswissenschaften der Europa-Universität Viadrina]] [Institute of transcultural health sciences] in turn again refers to CAM Media.Watch.

Fritzsche also operated a pharmalobby blog www.cam-media-watch.de, whose imprint also lists [[Harald Walach]]. Walach holds an endowed chair funded by Heel, a large producer of homeopathics, which in turn supported Fritzsche's CAM Media.Watch blog. The blog maintained by Walach's [[Institut für transkulturelle Gesundheitswissenschaften der Europa-Universität Viadrina]] [Institute of transcultural health sciences] in turn again refers to CAM Media.Watch.

By its own account, the PR blog is supposed to assist journalists „''who want to look behind the curtain of scientific research of natural remedies, complementary medicine, as well as unconventional methods''“, thus providing public relations for pseudo medicine, in particular homeopathy. Fritzsche's blog used to be sponsored by several pharmaceutical companies, e.g. [[Weleda AG]], [[DHU|Deutsche Homöopathie-Union]] (DHU-Arzneimittel GmbH &&nbsp;Co.&nbsp;KG, Karlsruhe), [[Hevert Arzneimittel]] and [[Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH]], Baden-Baden, with an annual amount of 43.000&nbsp;Euro in sum.<ref>http://anonym.to/?http://www.cam-media-watch.de/?page_id=2</ref> According to an article in German daily newspaper Süddeutschen Zeitung from June 2012, Fritzsche was an author of ''"vituperative articles"'' and ''"apparently responsible for the denigration of critics of homeopathy"'' for DZVhÄ. Upon inquiry, DZVhÄ as well as several "producers of globuli" confirmed their sponsoring of the blogs which in part were volunteered by Fritzsche while for some blogs, Fritzsche was fully responsible as an editor in charge. According to SZ there was a kind of network of Munich Neural and "Noise-field" therapist Imke Plischko (board member of Internationale Gesellschaft für Neuraltherapie IGNH [International Society for Neural Therapy]), Claus Fritzsche, and Harald Walach. An e-mail available to SZ which Fritzsche distributed to his network, containing the draft of a scorcher on renowned journalist Max Rauner with a request for "examination of contents and style", SZ commented, was not compatible with journalistic principles.

By its own account, the PR blog was supposed to assist journalists „''who want to look behind the curtain of scientific research of natural remedies, complementary medicine, as well as unconventional methods''“, thus providing public relations for pseudo medicine, in particular homeopathy. Fritzsche's blog used to be sponsored by several pharmaceutical companies, e.g. [[Weleda AG]], [[DHU|Deutsche Homöopathie-Union]] (DHU-Arzneimittel GmbH &&nbsp;Co.&nbsp;KG, Karlsruhe), [[Hevert Arzneimittel]] and [[Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH]], Baden-Baden, with an annual amount of altogether 43.000&nbsp;Euro.<ref>http://anonym.to/?http://www.cam-media-watch.de/?page_id=2</ref> According to an article in German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung from June 2012, Fritzsche was an author of ''"vituperative articles"'' and ''"apparently responsible for the denigration of critics of homeopathy"'' for DZVhÄ. Upon inquiry, DZVhÄ as well as several "producers of globuli" confirmed their sponsoring of the blogs which in part were volunteered by Fritzsche while for some blogs, Fritzsche was fully responsible as an editor in charge. According to SZ there was a kind of network of Munich Neural and "Noise-field" therapist Imke Plischko (board member of Internationale Gesellschaft für Neuraltherapie IGNH [International Society for Neural Therapy]), Claus Fritzsche, and Harald Walach. An e-mail available to SZ which Fritzsche distributed to his network, containing the draft of a scorcher on renowned journalist Max Rauner with a request for "examination of contents and style", SZ commented, was not compatible with journalistic principles.

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"[...]Manufacturers of medicinal products finance a journalist who pillories critics of their products. For any conventional pharmaceutical company this would be regarded as a scandal. [...] Fritzsche’s sponsors are the popular manufacturers of homeopathic pills. Market leader is DHU, a subsidiary of [[Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG|Schwabe]] (well-known products are Kytta, Prostagutt, Tebonin).. [...] The sums they are dealing with are not peanuts: Total sales of all manufacturers amounts to 400 million Euro, 100 alone on behalf of DHU.[...] Fritzsche sees no problem in the sponsorship: “Nearly identical contracts exist with every sponsor”, he openly writes. “These contracts oblige me to respect relevant laws, to remain a neutral position regarding ideology, science and politics. Moreover they provide independency of my editorial work and my scientific advisory board.” Also advertising of products is strictly excluded.<br>But for a publisher of a journalistic blog also the Codex of the Press applies. “For the responsibility of the press towards the public it is common courtesy that editorial publications must not be biased by private or economical interests of third parties or personal economical interests of journalists.” Furthermore, “Anyone who lets himself be bribed for the publishing or suppressing of news acts dishonorable and against the values of his profession." How he reconciles this with his sponsoring, Fritzsche was asked. No answer to these questions from him, though several e-mails were written in which he criticized the “leading questions” and threatened to instigate legal measures.<br>Fritzsche has several more websites on which he recommends esoteric therapies that are not scientifically acknowledged. Moreover he denigrated several journalists from Spiegel, Spiegel Online, Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Süddeutsche.de. And of course Edzard Ernst, again and again. The allegations are always the same: frivolous research, incompetence, lopsided and biased presentation of facts. Fritzsche counterlinks his sites to each other in order to improve their google ranking. Besides CAM Media.Watch, Fritzsche also holds the websites www.psychophysik.com, www.neuraltherapie-blog.de and www.esowatch.org.[...]''<ref>[http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/homoeopathie-lobby-im-netz-schmutzige-methoden-der-sanften-medizin-1.1397617 Jens Lubbadeh: "Homöopathie-Lobby im Netz - Schmutzige Methoden der sanften Medizin", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30.06.2012]</ref><ref>http://blog.gwup.net/2012/07/01/homoopathie-lobbyisten-ohne-schamgrenzen/</ref><ref>[http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/07/the-dirty-tricks-of-alternative-medicine.html The dirty tricks of alternative medicine], Translation of the article at Quackometer</ref>

"[...]Manufacturers of medicinal products finance a journalist who pillories critics of their products. For any conventional pharmaceutical company this would be regarded a scandal. [...] Fritzsche’s sponsors are popular manufacturers of homeopathic pills. Market leader is DHU, a subsidiary of [[Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG|Schwabe]] (well-known products are Kytta, Prostagutt, Tebonin).. [...] The sums they are dealing with are not peanuts: Total sales of all manufacturers amounts to 400 million Euro, 100 alone on behalf of DHU.[...] Fritzsche sees no problem in the sponsorship: “Nearly identical contracts exist with every sponsor”, he openly writes. “These contracts oblige me to respect relevant laws, to remain a neutral position regarding ideology, science and politics. Moreover they provide independency of my editorial work and my scientific advisory board.” Advertising of products is also strictly excluded.<br>But for a publisher of a journalistic blog the Codex of the Press applies, too. “For the responsibility of the press towards the public it is common courtesy that editorial publications must not be biased by private or economical interests of third parties or personal economical interests of journalists.” Furthermore, “Anyone who lets himself be bribed for the publishing or suppressing of news acts dishonorable and against the values of his profession." How he reconciles this with his sponsoring, Fritzsche was asked. No answer to these questions from him, though several e-mails were written in which he criticized the “leading questions” and threatened to initiate legal measures.<br>Fritzsche has several more websites on which he recommends esoteric therapies which are not acknowledged scientifically. Moreover he denigrated several journalists from Spiegel, Spiegel Online, Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Süddeutsche.de. And of course Edzard Ernst, again and again. The allegations are always the same: frivolous research, incompetence, lopsided and biased presentation of facts. Fritzsche counterlinks his sites to each other in order to improve their google ranking. Besides CAM Media.Watch, Fritzsche also holds the websites www.psychophysik.com, www.neuraltherapie-blog.de and www.esowatch.org.[...]''<ref>[http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/homoeopathie-lobby-im-netz-schmutzige-methoden-der-sanften-medizin-1.1397617 Jens Lubbadeh: "Homöopathie-Lobby im Netz - Schmutzige Methoden der sanften Medizin", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30.06.2012]</ref><ref>http://blog.gwup.net/2012/07/01/homoopathie-lobbyisten-ohne-schamgrenzen/</ref><ref>[http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/07/the-dirty-tricks-of-alternative-medicine.html The dirty tricks of alternative medicine], Translation of the article at Quackometer</ref>

When criticism of CAM Media.Watch was voiced on Weleda's facebook pages in July 2012, Weleda-spokesman Theo Stepp declared that they will stop sponsoring the blog.<ref>Citation Facebook/Weleda: ''„Aufgrund der Debatte um das Blog CAM Media werden wir noch mehr als bisher auf Transparenz setzen, damit künftig keine Missverständnisse entstehen. Eine klare Trennung von Anzeigen und Redaktion ist uns wichtig. Wir sind am echten Austausch und Feedback interessiert. Das bisherige Blogsponsoring werden wir in diesem Falle sofort stoppen.

When criticism of CAM Media.Watch was voiced on Weleda's facebook pages in July 2012, Weleda-spokesman Theo Stepp declared they will stop sponsoring the blog.<ref>Citation Facebook/Weleda: ''„Aufgrund der Debatte um das Blog CAM Media werden wir noch mehr als bisher auf Transparenz setzen, damit künftig keine Missverständnisse entstehen. Eine klare Trennung von Anzeigen und Redaktion ist uns wichtig. Wir sind am echten Austausch und Feedback interessiert. Das bisherige Blogsponsoring werden wir in diesem Falle sofort stoppen.

Theo Stepp, Pressesprecher Weleda AG Deutschland“''</ref><ref>http://dieausrufer.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/weleda-und-die-weisheit-der-menschen/</ref>

Theo Stepp, Pressesprecher Weleda AG Deutschland“''</ref><ref>http://dieausrufer.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/weleda-und-die-weisheit-der-menschen/</ref>