It’s always a good week when it starts with Deepak trying to show his credibility as a scientist. He tw**ted this at me yesterday (I got informed by email), with the obvious message that REAL SCIENTISTS take him seriously. Or, perhaps this is a tacit admission on his part that HIV causes AIDS after all. . .

I wonder two things. Why on earth would Montagnier let himself be interviewed by Chopra? (One possibility: Orac has described some of Montagnier’s dabblings in woo after he got the Big Prize.)

And I wonder if the French scientist knows that Chopra has waffled about whether he sees HIV as the cause of AIDS? (Chopra has now admitted it, but hasn’t said that he erred previously, nor clarified the role of “right thinking” in getting AIDS.)

Universe to Chopra: talking to a good scientist doesn’t make you one, too.