An edited version of my Coronavirus (36): Denialism = Death post is now available on the site of the Center for a Stateless Society. Folks can check it out here. Yet another H/T to my friend Eric Fleischmann for having proposed these additions to the C4SS site.
It is ironic that we have just learned of the death of Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the virus that causes AIDS. He died at the age of 89 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine on Tuesday, February 8, 2022—making this discussion of Duesberg denialism all the more pertinent. (Also pertinent is the sad fact that in later years, Montagnier himself embraced fringe beliefs concerning the treatment of autism and the origins of—and vaccines developed for—COVID-19. Clearly, denialism is not restricted to lifelong denialists!)
