Exactly [1]:

> In January 2009, Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Laureate virologist who led the team that discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), claimed (in a paper published in a journal that he set up, which seems to have avoided conventional peer review as it was accepted three days after submission) that the DNA of pathogenic bacteria and viruses massively diluted in water emit radio waves that he can detect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory#Other_scientists

This makes me wonder if that team discovered HIV despite his contributions, not because of them.

Or it is uncorrelated. I personally met a successful local technical innovation guy who believed in perpetual motion / free energy devices and told me stories about their “presentations”.

Highly likely. Very smart people can believe in very weird stuff without seeing any proof.

...and he's a "vaccines cause autism" crank as well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/05/27/nobel...

Looks like he'd gone that route well before any of the COVID-19 stuff.

Ho, M. W. (2014). Large supramolecular water clusters caught on camera-A review. Water, 6, 1-12.

Here they show pictures supposedly in support of water structure.

Quite a bit of work in the area.

The paper by this author? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae-Wan_Ho#Institute_of_Scienc...

Not the most ringing endorsement.

Yes. That’s why the pictures and article are worth checking out. Anything having to do with “water structure” rankles scientists. But see for yourself.

Oh woops I'll admit I didn't read that far down the wikipedia entry.