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Mar 4, 2022 · His baseless claims about COVID-19 — that vaccines would drive the emergence of dangerous variants, or that the virus was engineered — were weaponized by misinformation campaigns. He died on 8...
May 22, 2021 · No, French virologist Luc Montagnier didn’t say COVID-19 vaccine recipients were going to die soon. If Your Time is short. This quote was fabricated. See the sources for this fact-check. A...
Feb 10, 2022 · Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who shared a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the virus that causes AIDS, died on Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was 89. The town...
Mar 18, 2021 · Dr. Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering HIV, said last year he believes the coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
Feb 15, 2022 · Montagnier was an outspoken opponent of the COVID-19 vaccines, and spread misinformation about them. In May, he falsely claimed that they were causing coronavirus variants. But he was also...
Montagnier has claimed that new SARS-CoV-2 variants are the results of vaccines and advocated treating autism with antibiotics. These statements resulted in Montagnier receiving fierce criticism from fellow scientists and science journalists, accusing him of promoting dangerous pseudoscience.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier promoted [clarification needed] the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created and escaped from a laboratory. [7] . Such a claim has been rejected by other virologists. [8] [9] [10] Early life and education. Montagnier was born in Chabris in central France. [11] .
