Death of Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier died on 8 February. Why did we have to wait two days for confirmation? Do the media want us to forget that this leading specialist in research on viruses and vaccines was opposed to the anti-covid vaccines? Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of the AIDS virus in 1983 and director of the Institut Pasteur from 1991 to 1997, he considered anti-covid vaccination “a medical error”.
Luc Montagnier died on 8 February 2022. He was a man appreciated by all; those who met him remember his kindness, his generosity and his sincerity. Though disparaged by some, he nevertheless had a full life in the service of medical research.
A career at the highest level, a Nobel Prize
Born in 1932 in Chabris near Tours, France, he graduated from the prestigious Paris faculty of sciences and chose early on to specialise in virology, thanks to the modern approach of molecular biology.
In the course of his academic career at the highest level, notably at the CNRS, of which he would become emeritus director, he made numerous discoveries. He discovered the replicative form of RNA viruses, decisively advanced knowledge of retroviruses and, above all, was the first to isolate the AIDS virus in 1983 . It was for this discovery that he would receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008.
One of the greatest vaccine specialists
Luc Montagnier worked for a long time at the Institut Pasteur, a world-renowned foundation specialising in the study of viruses and vaccines. He was its director from 1991 to 1997. He then became director of the centre for molecular and cellular biology at the prestigious Queens College of the University of New York [2].
His diligent work to understand and fight viruses, and in particular the AIDS virus, earned him numerous awards, including the Legion of Honour [3]. Unanimously recognised, he was an honorary doctor of the universities of Bologna, Louvain, London, Montreal and many others.
Rejected for his search for new therapeutic approaches?
He focused his work on understanding the pathogenic effects of viruses and proposed new therapeutic approaches [4]. These did not earn him only sympathy from his colleagues. Some, perhaps wishing to favour conventional drug therapies and vaccines at all costs, declared at the end of his life that his work was, all things considered, not credible [5].
Is that why his death was confirmed by the traditional media only two days late? Many people were thus left in doubt. Those who had come to know him personally and appreciated him, but also those who followed his enlightened recommendations regarding the covid crisis.
A respected voice during the covid crisis
He was indeed one of the first to understand that the virus had been artificially manufactured in a laboratory in China [6], and one of the first to show the dangers of mass vaccination campaigns, notably the risk of creating new variants.
He had declared unambiguously “large-scale vaccination against covid is an enormous mistake and a medical error” [7].
His experience and expertise made him a voice that remained highly respected despite the criticism he could face. The world has just lost one of its most eminent and upright minds in the medical field, and we can only join in this great sadness.
By Nicolas Mertens, journalist at BAM!
Luc Montagnier, Des virus et des hommes, Odile Jacob, 1994
2] https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/luc-montagnier
3] https://www.futura-sciences.com/sante/personnalites/medecine-luc-montagnier-764/
4] Luc Montagnier, Michel Niaussat and Philippe Harrouard, Le Nobel et le Moine : dialogues de notre temps, Libra Diffusio, 2009
5] “Vaccins : décryptage de l’étrange conférence de presse des professeurs Luc Montagnier et Henri Joyeux”, Sciences et Avenir, 20 November 2017
