French Nobel Prize winning scientist Luc Montagnier claimed that Coronavirus is partially man-made, adding fuel to the controversy related to the claims that the virus is man-made. Complete Coverage: Coronavirus
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Is COVID-19 Man-made? According to professor Montagnier, there is presence of elements of HIV in the genome of Coronavirus and germs of malaria. He considered that coronavirus was developed while attempts were being made to produce a vaccine for HIV AIDS. He said that the laboratory at Wuhan in China has achieved expertise in dealing with coronavirus since the early 2000s. Montagnier also said that the research supporting the claims that Coronavirus is man-made has been suppressed and canceled in China. First paper stating COVID-19 as man-made was published by a group of renowned Indian scientists.
No, it’s not natural. It’s a lab work of professional molecular biologists. It’s a very accurate work… we can say a work of watchmaker. Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize Winning French Virologist
Adding Fuel This statement sparked controversy in the scientific community and has added fuel to the US allegations on China for spreading COVID-19. The US has launched an investigation into the matter of spreading the virus from the labs of Wuhan. Trump stated that Coronavirus leaked from the laboratory of Wuhan. But China has defended itself rejecting all claims, saying that all the allegation of spreading of virus from the Chineses lab at Wuhan are baseless and lack scientific evidence.
Montagnier – A Controversial Figure Montagnier’s scientific career has been controversial. In the past, he was criticized for his research work on electromagnetic waves emitted by DNA (DNA teleportation) and on the benefits of papaya in AIDS. Critics have said that his theories lack scientific evidence. Another French virologist Étienne Simon-Lorière criticized Luc’s comment on COVID-19 and said, “His claims do not make sense. These are very small elements that we find in other viruses of the same family, other coronaviruses in nature.”
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Luc Antoine Montagnier is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He currently works as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes are regarded as the most prestigious awards in their respective fields.
Alfred Nobel – He held more than 335 patents and Dynamite is the most famous among them. Nobelium is a synthetic element, named after Nobel Alfred.
The infamous political scandal between India and Sweden, ‘Bofors Scandal’ was a weapons contract with Bofors in which the company bribed many politicians from both the countries to make the deal possible. The same Bofors was owned by Alfred Nobel.
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