A year earlier, Dr. Luc Montagnier also had only suggested—in his May 1983 paper in Science—that his claimed virus “may be involved in several pathological syndromes, including AIDS.”52 Montagnier, a brilliant scientist known for his integrity, had found evidence of HIV in the lymph nodes of 72 percent of the forty-four AIDS patients he tested. Montagnier always remained tentative about claiming the weak correlation as proof. As early as 1992, Montagnier told Nature that “HIV is a necessary but not, without the cofactor, a sufficient cause of AIDS.”53 As we shall see, Montagnier’s later
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