Just from reading his wikipedia bio, whatever gravitas he may have once had seems to have been traded for conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

This looks like idea laundering.

> wikipedia bio

You should know better than blindly trust wikipedia. It's written by humans, too, who are not devoid of bias.

Nor should one blindly trust a Nobel Prize winner.

cft (who, like us all, is not devoid of bias) linked to Wikipedia as support for the importance of this letter. I think it's only fair to examine that page to check if that support is appropriate.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier was a promoter of the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created in, and thereafter escaped from a laboratory. Such a claim has been refuted by other virologists.

>Such a claim has been refuted by other virologists.

You make it sound like there’s a consensus here, but I don’t think that’s actually the case—at least not anymore, if it was true before.

You sure about that?

>Such a claim has been refuted by other virologists.

like Peter Daszak, Shi Zhengli, and Fauci

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...

There's a ring of people here that gang up and downvote posts, waging political wars. Then they seek out and downvote others recent comments by the same user. dang has to look into this.

> other virologists.

You mean the Lancet Hoax?

And other virologists share Montagnier’s assertion that the proverbial pangolins had nothing to do with this fiasco.