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Luc Montagnierd joint recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus HIV has argued the virus was created in a lab.

"French Nobel prize winner: ‘Covid-19 was made in lab’"

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Disputed-French-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier

Again, just another appeal to authority, to be analyzed further. I find curious his personal Wikipedia page still characterizes the controversy has him being accused of spreading a conspiracy theory, while today, its looking as one of the most likely causes.



luc montagnier has a long list of insane public claims for the past decades (things about "water memory" comes to my mind , but there are others).

He lost credit a long time ago, way before covid, so i would be really cautious about citing anything he has to say about the virus.


After further research...I am inclined to agree with you. I just found he also claimed 5G was helping spread Covid.


This phenomenon keep happening with old Nobel laureates. Linus Pauling for instance...

For any public binary question with weak information, you'll find crazy people arguing both sides.




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