| From: The Australian, 5 July 2010 | |
A Nobel laureate who discovered the link between HIV and AIDS believes homeopathy stands on a sound scientific footing. |
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French virologist Luc Montagnier shocked his peers at a prestigious international conference by presenting a new method for detecting viral infections that shows parallels with the basic principles of homeopathy. At the conference Montagnier said that solutions containing the DNA of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, including HIV, "are able to emit low-frequency radio waves" which cause the surrounding water molecules to arrange themselves into "nanostructures". These water molecules could in turn emit radio waves themselves. |
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| He showed that water retained these properties even when the original solution was massively diluted to the point where the original DNA had effectively disappeared. In this way water could "remember" substances with which it had been in contact - and doctors could use these emissions to detect diseases. | |
For a scientist it is provocative to draw a parallel here with the principles of homeopathy. |
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| Doctors' growing concern is linked to the rising popularity of homeopathy. Even the Queen and David Beckham use homeopathic remedies. Montagnier received the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his research in the 1980s that established the link between HIV and AIDS. That breakthrough paved the way for new therapies that have extended the lives of millions of people. He recently attended the Nobel Laureates' meeting in Lindau, Germany, where 60 Nobel laureates and 700 other scientists gathered to discuss the latest developments in medicine, chemistry and physics. |
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| Cristal Sumner of the British Homeopathic Association says Montagnier's work gives homeopathy "a genuine scientific ethos". | |
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