 He has served as a journalist for Basler Zeitung Medien and as editor in chief of Baslerstab.He is best known for his writings on fringe science and popular science.Published in 2007, Bürgin's book "Der Urzeit-Code" (The Primeval Code), is a popular science book dealing with a patent granted in 1980 to the chemical company Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis), which deals with the process of electroculture, which helped to increase the resilience of crops and reduce the use of pesticides on treated crops.