Received from Dr. Giorgio Gagliardi, Coordinator of Scientific Medjugorje Commission
Dr. Giorgio Gagliardi (1934–2023), a Catholic physician, was a collaborator of the second study group (1985), which examined the neurophysiology of the visionaries of Medjugorje during the alleged ecstasies, and the scientific coordinator of the third group (1998).
On 31 August 2009, he kindly sent me a comment on the parts of my critical book on Medjugorje that deal with scientific analyses.
With his permission, I reproduced here the ending part of his letter:
My field of research is confined to experimental science, and, even if it’s true that I cannot declare whether the phenomenon is true or false in the way the masses expect, I am happy that somebody wrote down what really happened in such an incontrovertible way as you did.
Giorgio Gagliardi
Many years later, Dr. Gagliardi asked me to write the preface for the new edition of his book La Madonna negata (Vertigo, 2023).
Here is the text of my preface:
