“That does not make sense. These are very small elements that we find in other viruses of the same family, other coronaviruses in nature,” virologist Étienne Simon-Lorière of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, explained to AFP.
“These are pieces of the genome that actually look like lots of sequences in the genetic material of bacteria, viruses and plants,” he says.
“If we take a word from a book and it looks like another word, can we say that one has copied from the other? This is absurd!”
Simon-Lorière is manager of the evolutionary genomic structure of RNA viruses at the Institut Pasteur, the report said.
The alleged modifications of the virus — which would seek to get rid of foreign elements (genetic pieces of HIV) — are undoubtedly false, adds Simon-Lorière, who abstained from any comment on Montagnier’s “waves” theory.
呂克·蒙塔尼耶:武漢實驗室研究冠狀病毒已經多年,是這方面的專家。這就促使我對這個病毒的基因序列進行了更加深入的研究,不僅由我個人,還有我的同事數學家Jean Claude Perrez共同進行,他將 數學運用於生物基因序列的研究。他對基因序列的所有部分都進行了研究,我們並不是最早發現新冠病毒中有艾滋病毒基因序列的,之前印度學者 也發現新冠病毒的基因組中含有別的病毒的序列,對我來說,這別的病毒就是艾滋病病毒,但是,他們的文章在正式發表之前被迫撤回,因為他們受到太大的壓力。但是,科學的真相總會大白於天下。