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Virologist and Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier announced earlier this month that, at age 78, he will take on the leadership of a new research institute at Jiaotong University in Shanghai.

What has shocked many scientists, however, isn’t Luc Montagnier‘s departure from France but what he plans to study in China: electromagnetic waves that Luc Montagnier says emanate from the highly diluted DNA of various pathogens.

Science talked to Luc Montagnier last week – see full article here.

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In a study that was published in 2009, Luc Montagnier demonstrated that some bacterial DNA sequences are able to induce electromagnetic waves, even at high aqueous dilutions up to 10^18. This study was an important contribution to the growing evidence base in fundamental research with direct relevance to homeopathy.

Luc Montagnier will take on the leadership of a new research institute at Jiaotong University in Shanghai and plans to study the phenomenon of electromagnetic waves produced by DNA in water. His research team will study both the theoretical basis and the possible applications in medicine.

In the interview Luc Montagnier says that he cannot pursue this research in France because he does nothave much funding there. Because of French retirement laws, he is no longer allowed to work at a public institute. But there is another reason as well. When he applied for funding from other sources, he was turned down. Luc Montagnier argued that there is a kind of fear around this topic in Europe.

In this context he refers to Jacques Benveniste, a French physician/scientist who conducted
research on homeopathic doses. Luc Montagnier regards him as a ‘modern Galileo’.

“Jacques Benveniste was rejected by everybody, because he was too far ahead. He lost everything, his lab, his money. . . I think he was mostly right, but the problem was that his results weren’t 100% reproducible.

“I am told that some people have reproduced Jacques Benveniste‘s results, but they are afraid to publish it because of the intellectual terror from people who don’t understand it.”

Luc Montagnier is not worried that his colleagues will think he has drifted into pseudoscience. He replied adamantly: “No, because it’s not pseudoscience. It’s not quackery. These are real phenomena which deserve further study.”

With thanks to Dana Ullman:

In a truly remarkable interview recently published in SCIENCE magazine, Luc Montagnier describes his newest work that has significant implications on homeopathy.

Luc Montagnier make the following strong statement for homeopathy and homeopathic doses:

“I can’t say that homeopathy is right in everything. What I can say now is that the high dilutions are right. High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules. I have applied for funding from other sources, but I have been turned down. There is a kind of fear around this topic in Europe. I am told that some people have reproduced Benveniste’s results, but they are afraid to publish it because of the intellectual terror from people who don’t understand it.”

Further, Luc Montagnier refers to Jacques Benveniste, a French physician/scientist who conducted research on homeopathic doses, as a “modern Galileo.”

What is also extremely interesting is the fact that the Chinese are showing the world that they are ahead of everyone else, not only in the world’s marketplace, but now in the future of medicine and science…. (unlike the old dried up monopolies clutching at the hearts and minds of free peoples in the West).