Professor Luc Montagnier pays tribute to Jacques Benveniste
In the preamble:
May 10, 2010.
A reader sent me an excerpt from a program where the Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier praises my late friend Jacques Benveniste.
Professor Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2007, in Lugano
He doesn't hold back and doesn't hesitate to declare that Jacques was a brilliant pioneer, ahead of his time, and his belief that one day his views would be recognized as correct.
I remember the time when the general director of the INSERM, Lazare, took away from Jacques his 200 square meters of space at INSERM 200 in Clamart, which led him to re-establish himself in the Algeco containers in the courtyard! A complete disgrace.
Many times I told Jacques, "give up, you'll end up losing your life!" But he clung on, clung on, until his last breath, until he lost his life, with a broken heart.
My career has had similar aspects, and I owe my life to the fact that it has been nothing but an uninterrupted series of abandonments: MHD in 1972 (by abandoning at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Marseille the installation with which I had brought the lab to the forefront internationally in 1967), computer science in 1983 (I was deputy head of the computer service at the University of Provence), teaching in the faculty of letters and mathematics (sphere inversion, Pour la Science 1979), a comeback in MHD (1975-1986), abandoning comic book publishing with a publisher in 1990, rapid abandonment in the 2000s in Egyptology. Currently, almost abandonment, or serious inactivity in astrophysics, cosmology, and mathematical physics, due to lack of positive responses (1985-2008).
Currently, a rebound with Savoir sans Frontières and re-publication of books and comics. Activities bordering on abandonment in MHD and UFOs. Below is the photo of the MHD bench being assembled in Rochefort (status in May 2010):
This is in the style of Jacques' Algeco containers, in the courtyard of the INSERM, the difference being that it's not me who is handling it, but a courageous 40-year-old technician. Unlike Bernard Palissy, I won't burn my furniture.
The French leading-edge MHD, the "out of equilibrium" MHD, the "bitemperature plasmas," which allows us to be among the top in international conferences (Vilnius 2008, Bremen 2009), here it is!
It would be funny if it weren't so utterly sad.
The audio file of the Montagnier interview, May 2010
Lugano Conference, October 27, 2007, on nano-elements linked to microorganisms
April 22, 2009: see at the end of this page a comment by Jean-Marie Danze
http://www.colombre.it/montagnier
Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, pays tribute to Jacques Benveniste during a conference on nano-structures linked to bacterial agents held in Lugano in 2007. He quotes him right at the beginning of his lecture. This conference is significant. All the ideas of this great pioneer, Jacques Benveniste, who died in &&&, are found here. I encourage you to follow his lecture (second video), which popular science magazines like Science et Vie, which so fiercely attacked Jacques, have not and will certainly not report on.
Everything is there, everything that Benveniste tried to develop in his group
Digibio
, rejected into Algeco containers in the courtyard of his former laboratory, the INSERM 200, in Clamart.
Montagnier has carried out numerous experiments in virology. He has shown that a diluent, water, could emit electromagnetic signals even though the dilutions performed (10-17) had eliminated the viral agent. He reiterates the idea of Benveniste according to which nanostructures present in water could behave as resonators, capable of causing the emission of bioactive electromagnetic waves. He notes and supports the idea that the energy is not provided by the water but by the ambient electromagnetic environment, the "ambient electromagnetic background noise." Jacques had observed this by depriving his diluted samples of this energy source by using a Faraday cage.
Montagnier opposes the idea put forward by physicists that water could not produce "stable aggregates" over periods exceeding a few nanoseconds. The existence of such aggregates, for Montagnier, is the only explanation for the effects observed. He considers that these aggregates, these aqueous nanostructures, could "self-sustain," an idea already proposed by Benveniste. He recommends the creation of an institute, a purely interdisciplinary research group focused on the study of water, as a poorly understood biological agent and on a poorly understood mode of communication between biomolecules, through the emission and reception of electromagnetic waves.
April 22, 2009
A comment by Jean-Marie Danze, dated December 26, 2008, which I reproduce below
Professor Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, during a conference in Lugano (Switzerland) on October 27, 2007, titled "Nano-elements from pathogenic microorganisms" (Nano-elements from pathogenic microorganisms), paid a heartfelt tribute to Jacques Benveniste.
He stated: "This conference is a tribute to Jacques Benveniste, who was one of my colleagues. At first, I did not follow his completely new breakthroughs, but it turns out that my work on the AIDS virus led me to approach his ideas." He then presented the results of his work on the AIDS virus. Professor Montagnier explains that when infected blood was filtered in such a way that no bacteria or virus could remain in the solution, some living structures spontaneously reappeared after about twenty days. These bacteria and viruses emit electromagnetic signals in the culture medium, even though they had been eliminated. This leads Professor Montagnier to say, "Genetic information can be transmitted from DNA to something that is in the water."... and "this is another step into science fiction. I believe that Jacques Benveniste had many very bold ideas. I am a bit following his path..."
Here is a summary of the scientific content of the conference:
There are many ways in which infectious agents can persist in their host, despite an adequate immune defense and the use of powerful inhibitors of their multiplication. Retroviruses have evolved to find the best solution to remain silently in the host cell by integrating their DNA into the cell's DNA. However, bacteria have also learned to remain almost indefinitely in tissues or organs in a resting state, insensitive to antibiotics and little exposed to immune reactions. It is also a general property of pathogenic microorganisms to rapidly adapt their genome to any targeted reaction against them, whether endogenous (immune response) or exogenous (pharmacological treatment).
I will describe some new phenomena occurring in bacteria and viruses that can contribute to the chronicity of many diseases and the difficulties in eliminating their infectious cause.
The first is what can best be defined as genetic dispersion. When a suspension of mycoplasms is filtered through filters of ...