Luc Montagnier

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Luc Montagnier (1932–2022) was a French virologist and 2008 Nobel Prize co-winner for his joint discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. He was the co-founder of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention and co-director of the Program for International Viral Collaboration.

Where things go south…[edit]

Homeopathy[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Homeopathy

Unfortunately, Montagnier became increasingly cranky in his old age and become a big supporter of homeopathy.[1]

In 2009, he conducted an "experiment" on diluted DNA in which he claimed that the DNA emitted an electromagnetic signal after it diluted down to nothing.[2] Although the brand-new journal (Interdisciplinary Sciences, Computational Life Sciences) claims to be peer reviewed,[3] but at the time of publication Montagnier was chairman of the board,[4] essentially assuring that anything he wrote would be published. He used his laptop with unspecified and varying software, and an unspecified amplifier to experiment, so it's 99.9% certain that he just picked up some white noise.[2]

Along these lines, Montagnier also claimed that the DNA emits abnormal electromagnetic radiation in people with autism, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis.[5]

Nevertheless, woo-meisters like Deepak Chopra[6] and Dana Ullman[7] have held this up as a vindication of homeopathic "theories" since Montagnier has become something of an outspoken apologist for homeopathy after he conducted this "experiment". If a Nobel-winner says it, it must be true!

The fact that the effect lasts a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second) has not been reproduced by other scientists, was self-published without peer-review,[8] and according to Montagnier, the research "cannot extrapolate it to the products used in homeopathy".[9][10]

Apparently, his homeopathic infallibility does not extend to knowing the applicability of his own research.

Montagnier has also spoken in support of immunologist Jacques Benveniste's "delusion[al]" research that resulted in the "Benveniste affair",Wikipedia and the term "water memory".[5]

Claiming the COVID virus was engineered[edit]

See the main article on this topic: COVID-19 pandemic § Claims that the virus was engineered

In 2020, Montagnier and co-author Jean Claude Perez hypothesized based on a genetic data analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, was semi-synthetic.[11] The hypothesis was widely criticized by scientists because the gene sequences alleged to be synthetic occur widely within other coronaviruses in the wild.[12] Another study, published the same year, clearly showed " that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus."[13] He has also suggested that COVID-19 would accelerate aging.[14]

Joining the anti-vaccination movement[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Anti-vaccination movement

He was present at Autism One with such notable kooks as Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, and Operation Rescue.[15] In 2021, Montagnier falsely claimed that widespread COVID vaccination would create more virus variants, and called the massive vaccination effort a 'medical mistake'.[note 1][17] He also stated that a process called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) creates more serious COVID infections, however the problem ADE was already addressed during vaccine development.[17] Before he died, he suggested that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines would eventually lead to the acceleration of Prion diseases.[18]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ↑
    “”C’est une énorme erreur, c’est une erreur scientifique et une faute médicale inexplicable, l’histoire fera le bilan un jour de tout ça, car c’est effectivement la vaccination qui a créé le variant.
    —Montagnier[16]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Nobel laureate gives homeopathy a boost (July 05, 2010 12:00AM) The Australian (archived from December 25, 2010).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Electromagnetic signals are produced by aqueous nanostructures derived from bacterial DNA sequences by Luc Montagnier et al. (2009) Interdisciplinary Sciences, Computational Life Sciences 1(2):81-90. doi:10.1007/s12539-009-0036-7.
  3. ↑ Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences: Submission guidelines Springer.
  4. ↑ Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences Springer (archived from February 26, 2020).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 French Nobelist Escapes 'Intellectual Terror' to Pursue Radical Ideas in China by Martin Enserink (24 Dec 2010) Science. doi:10.1126/science.330.6012.1732.
  6. ↑ Spirituality is the new science by Deepak Chopra (Jan. 24, 2011) SFGate.
  7. ↑ Nobel Prize-Winners Who Advocated for Homeopathic Medicine by Dana Ullman (January 19th, 2022) Homeopathic Family Medicine (archived from June 9, 2022).
  8. ↑ The Nobel disease meets DNA teleportation and homeopathy by David Gorski (January 14, 2011) Science Blogs.
  9. ↑ Luc Antoine Montagnier Hexagonal Water (archived from September 23, 2013).
  10. ↑ Cure or Con? (Jan 14, 2011) Marketplace, CBC (archived from April 13, 2014).
  11. ↑ COVID-19, SARS and Bats Coronaviruses Genomes Peculiar Homologous RNA Sequences by Jean Claude Perez & Luc Montagnier (2020) International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 8(7):217–263. doi:10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i7.2020.678.
  12. ↑ French Nobel prize winner: ‘Covid-19 was made in lab’: A controversial French Nobel prize-winning scientist has accused biologists of having created SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes Covid-19 - in a lab, but the wider scientific community has so far refuted the claim (3 March 2021 13:55) The Connexion.
  13. ↑ The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 by Kristian G. Andersen et al. (2020) Nature Medicine 26:450–452. doi:10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9.
  14. ↑ SARS-COV2 accelerates biological age by Xavier Azalbert, Anne-Typhaine Bouthors, Michel Brack, Dominique Cerdan, Walter Chesnut, Gérard Guillaume, Jean-François Lesgards, Luc Montagnier and Jean-Claude Perez, August 30, 2021, France-Soir
  15. ↑ Nobel laureate joins anti-vaccination crowd at Autism One by Stephen Salzberg (May 27, 2012,01:53pm EDT) Forbes.
  16. ↑ Pr Luc Montagnier: «Les variants viennent des vaccinations» (c. May 13, 2021) Planetes 360.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Luc Montagnier’s Views on COVID Vaccines Are Latest Of His Wrong, Vexing Ideas by Shahid Jameel (27/05/2021) The Wire Science.
  18. ↑ Towards the emergence of a new form of the neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Twenty six cases of CJD declared a few days after a COVID-19 “vaccine” Jab by Jean-Claude Perez, Claire Moret-Chalmin and Luc Montagnier, January 12, 2023, International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research
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