Luc Montagnier
![Montagnier in 2008](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Luc_Montagnier-press_conference_Dec_06th%2C_2008-6.jpg)
In 2017, Montagnier was criticised by other academics for using his Nobel prize status to "spread dangerous health messages outside of his field of knowledge". During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier promoted the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created and escaped from a laboratory. Such a claim has been rejected by other virologists. Provided by Wikipedia