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Q: Many of your colleagues seem to be
extremely skeptical.
French Nobelist Escapes ‘Intellectual L.M.: Well, I was skeptical myself in the
beginning. But these are facts. The findings
Terror’ to Pursue Radical Ideas in China are very reproducible and we are waiting for
confirmation by other labs.
PARIS—Virologist and Nobel laureate Luc duces structural changes in water, which
Montagnier announced earlier this month persist at very high dilutions, and which Q: You have called Benveniste a modern
that, at age 78, he will take on the leader- lead to resonant electromagnetic signals that Galileo. Why?
ship of a new research institute at Jiaotong we can measure. Not all DNA produces sig- L.M.: Benveniste was rejected by everybody,
University in Shanghai. What has shocked nals that we can detect with our device. The because he was too far ahead. He lost every-
many scientists, however, isn’t Montagnier’s high-intensity signals come from bacterial thing, his lab, his money. … I think he was
departure from France but what he plans to and viral DNA. mostly right, but the problem was that his
study in China: electromagnetic waves that results weren’t 100% reproducible.
Montagnier says emanate from the highly Q: What do you think are the potential
diluted DNA of various pathogens. medical applications? Q: Do you think there’s something to
Montagnier, who won a 2008 Nobel L.M.: I have found these signals coming homeopathy as well?
and the possible applications in medicine. use these findings not just for diagnostics but science?
also for treatment. It’s possible that electro- L.M.: No, because it’s not pseudoscience.
Q: What exactly are these waves? magnetic waves at some frequency will kill It’s not quackery. These are real phenomena
L.M.: What we have found is that DNA pro- the waves produced by bacterial DNA. which deserve further study.