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0 pointsjohannes12343215y ago0 comments

The Paul Ehrlich Institut is an independent scientific institute, who make suggestions based on science.

Of course they are influenced by what they see in the news and questions by the government, but aren't a political player.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich_Institute

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luckylion5y ago

> The Paul Ehrlich Institute (German: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut – Bundesinstitut für Impfstoffe und biomedizinische Arzneimittel, PEI) is a German research institution and medical regulatory body, and is the German federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines. It is a federal agency and subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Health.

They are hopefully scientific, but they are definitely not independent, not even by name.

johannes1234321OP5y ago

It is, according to the law (Gesetz über das Bundesinstitut für Impfstoffe und biomedizinische Arzneimittel) a "selbstständige Bundesbehörde" and true, it is not independent as a judge and not independent as public broadcasters, but its not a mere department of the ministry directly tied to the political will of the minister, but bound to its task by law.

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