by Olivia Emisar

Created on: February 05, 2011   Last Updated: February 07, 2011

Luc Montagnier’s claim that DNA can teleport from one organism to another has stirred a cauldron of controversy.  What is interesting about the ensuing controversy after his announcement and details of his experiment were released, is that those verbalizing their outrage are both inside and outside of the scientific community. 

♦ Luc Montagnier

Luc Montagnier is a French virologist who has worked for decades at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.  His interest in science started in childhood, and his desire to help arrest human suffering is believed to have been propelled by his grandfather’s prolonged battled with colon cancer.

Luc Montagnier is best known as one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize for establishing a link between HIV and AIDS.  His research would propel the manufacturing of medications and continuing research to battle AIDS worldwide.  His research still continues in this field in an effort that he hopes will yield a vaccine to cure AIDS.  It is not clear from the research if the following experiment with DNA may have been an offshoot of his AIDS research, but the experiment and subsequent claims have fueled the controversy mentioned above.

♦ The experiment

Let's simplify the experiment to its most basic principles: The experiment consisted of a tube of clear water and one containing a concentration of DNA material.  By using a complex system of electromagnetic signals, Luc Montagnier has made the claim that DNA can teleport its image to a vessel that contains no DNA whatsoever, in this experiment he used plain water.  He takes this assertion further by stating that enzymes can mistake the image, or ‘ghosh’ DNA, for real DNA and will copy and reproduce the string of DNA as if the 'real deal' was actually present.  This is in essence the basis of Luc Montagnier assertion of DNA teleportation.  The concentration and dilution ratios have not been fully disclosed, but the experiment results showed within 18 hours.

♦ Homeopathy

Luc Montagnier’s discovery may not have created so much controversy if articles on the subject had not connected the experiment’s required dilutions to homeopathic dilutions.  Homeopathy treatments rely on dilution, which is what the experiment above did but Luc Montagier did not discuss homeopathy in conjunction with his experiment in his reports.  The fact that homeopathy relies on high dilution ratios and Luc

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