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On 28 June 2010 during the prestigious 60 anniversary conference of Nobel Laureates held in Germany,Professor Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who won the Nobel prize for discovering a link between HIV and AIDS, has shocked fellow Nobel prize-winners by telling them that water has a memory that continues even after many dilutions.The idea is one of the foundations of homeopathy, which maintains that the potency of a substance is increased with its dilution.Professor Luc Montagnier has discovered that solutions containing the DNA of viruses and bacteria “could emit low frequency radio waves”. These waves influence molecules around them, and turn them into organised structures. These molecules in turn can emit waves.Professor Luc Montagnier has discovered that the waves remain in the water, even after it has been diluted many times. Professor Luc Montagnier’s statement couldn’t happen at a worse time for doctors.Last week, the UK’s British Medical Association (BMA) – the trade union of doctors – passed a resolution to stop homeopathy being made available on the National Health Service.It also wants all homeopathic remedies to be placed in a special area marked ‘Placebos’ in health shops and pharmacies.The NHS currently spends around £4m a year on homeopathy, mainly by funding four homeopathic hospitals in the UK. (Sources: Sunday Times, July 4, 2010; British Medical Association).
See a full explanation of ‘Homeopathic’ Signals from DNA by the Institute of Science in Society ISIS 31.8.10 and Read One Click’s analysis
Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for linking HIV with AIDS, last week made controversial claims that highly dilute solutions of harmful viruses and bacteria emit low-frequency radio waves, allegedly from watery nanostructures formed around the pathogens.Similar claims have been made for homeopathic remedies. Homeopathy has been subject to periodic attacks from the mainstream medical and scientific community aided and abetted by uninformed journalist in the mainstream press eager to create a good impression with the scientific establishment.The most difficult hurdle in getting general acceptance for homeopathy is without doubt the lack of an explanation, based on contemporary science, on why it would work. In my view, that is more important than getting double-blind, placebo-controlled data on efficacy.Such an explanation is beginning to emerge, and Luc Montagnier’s research team may have provided some key obser vations.Montagnier’s recent work, summarily dismissed in the New Scientist and elsewhere, has been published in two papers in 2009, and the evidence presented is clear and informative.The first paper reports the capacity of some bacterial DNA sequences to induce electromagnetic waves at high dilutions in water , and appears to be a “resonance phenomenon” triggered by the ambient electromagnetic background of very low frequency waves.Interestingly, genomic DNA of most pathogenic bacteria contain sequences that are able to generate such signals, suggesting that highly sensitive detection system might be developed for chronic bacterial infections in human and animal diseases.The second paper follows up this suggestion, showing that it is indeed possible to detect the presence of HIV DNA even when the RNA of the virus has disappeared from the blood of people infected with HIV and undergoing antiviral therapy. Dr Mae Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society
#1 by Wain Farrants on July 9, 2010 - 5:09 pm
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Doctors told me that I had six years, may be ten years to live with the form of cancer that I had. I had chemotherapy and it stopped working and radiotherapy, after which I did not need any more treatment. However, I have now survived 22 years since I first detected cancer and 20 years since it was diagnosed. Why? Amongst other things I took homeopathic medicines, in particular Abnoba Viscum (mistletoe) in various homeopathic dilutions. Mistletoe is used frequently in Germany but Britain is away behind the times.
#2 by Pat Martin on July 9, 2010 - 9:19 pm
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Until credence is given to homeopathic medicine, traditional medical treatments and drug protocols will fail. In concert, both forms can achieve amazing results but the fear of naturopathic cures piercing the profits of big Pharma is getting in the way of human health and human rights.
#3 by Amygdala on August 3, 2010 - 7:57 pm
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despite the conventional antibiotics which hospitalised me as a child. Thanks goes to my conventional doctor, who employs homeopathy within his NHS, GP surgery and to all who have empathically backed the people’s choice for homeopathy to be funded within our National Health I’m relieved that I can continue to be prescribed with safer homeopathic alternatives, Service. Thanks also, for this latest scientific insight.
#4 by Régine Simpson on September 17, 2010 - 11:21 am
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I read this week (17/09/10) in the newspaper: “Positive News from around the world”, an article about Professor Luc Montagnier (Nobel prize for discovering the link between HIV and Aids), saying that he has presented new research suggesting a scientific basic for homeopathy! Halleluia…. I have used homeopathic remedies at home for over twenty years and “it works!!!!”.
All the recent bad publicity in the papers about homeopathy has been totally outrageous and I was so frustrated and angry that there didn’t seem to be any articles to respond and “defend homeopathy”.
Lets hope that Luc Montagnier research will give homeopathy its credibility back and make a lot of “anti homeopathy “people very uncomfortable, good!
#5 by Keith Louhing on October 8, 2010 - 6:10 am
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Good for Luc Montagnier. Thank god we have people of integrity in this world.
I notice that he is coming under attack from the usual quarters. They attacked acupuncture and are now using it for combat wounds. Homeopathy will have its day.
#6 by Homeopathic Pain Relief Guy on April 28, 2011 - 9:52 pm
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IMO Montagnier’s career would be in jeopardy because of this, if he were not a Nobel winner. Worldwide, the “rational” scientific community engages in extremely irrational blacklisting, censorship and smear campaigns to virtually anyone who dares to push their status quo envelope.
These people are not interested in seeking truth. They want to maintain their world view and they do so with close mindedness. They remind me of cops, prosecutors, judges and jurors who won’t look at evidence that proves the person they accused and convicted of a crime is innocent of that crime. It is very much ego dominated.
Try asking any one of these types of people, If homeopathy is valid, wouldn’t you want to know it? They can’t even say, yes. They get apoplectic and end the conversation on the basis of homeopathy being rubbish.
Someone who is open minded has no problem stating, If I am wrong, I want to know; but most of these guys live their entire lives in an effort to prove others wrong, prop up their own paradigm, rather than in a quest for truth.