In 2020, documentary evidence emerged of the money that Professor Fourtillan had collected and continued to collect illegally, soliciting his patients to make donations to the Josefa Fund. For example:

 

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On March 20, 2020, a new request for donations arrived in patients' inboxes. It would be the last one, promised Marianne Fourtillan [the pharmacologist's wife]: "Jean-Bernard asks you to make a single and final donation to the Josefa Fund, in the highest amount possible.”

[Laetitia Cherel, Mis en examen après des essais thérapeutiques sauvages, le professeur Fourtillan persévère, France Inter, 12 February 2021]

 

 

At this point, Professor Joyeux starts backtracking:

 

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When asked if he had ever suspected that experiments in which he participated in 2018 were not legal, he [Joyeux] exclaims, “It’s evident now, but actually, no, I didn’t.”

[Ibid.]

 

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 Joyeux added:

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Jean-Bernard Fourtillan had a tendency to think that his discovery would cure a great number of diseases: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's among many others. I absolutely disagreed with this because there was no evidence. I said to him, “About sleeping, yes. As you have demonstrated it on animals, it must be present in humans, but be careful!"

[Ibid.]

 

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If this were really the case, Joyeux's responsibilities would be even greater. He, in fact, openly propagated the method, although he was aware that its effectiveness was to be demonstrated and that, in addition, volunteers were encouraged to pay significant amounts of money. Joyeux himself wrote in his 2019 communiqué:

 

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Those who contributed donated according to their financial means, knowing the real cost for each patient (from 1,000 to 2,500 euros, depending on the duration of the treatment), as Professor Fourtillan himself explained to the people willing to test the patches.

[Communiqué du professeur Henri Joyeux, 25 October 2019]

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On April 22, 2002, the world-famous French newspaper Le Figaro published an article by Laurence de Charette, entitled “Families of France: A president called into question” [“Familles de France : un président contesté”].

The president is Prof. Joyeux himself, who was the head of Familles de France, a French association devoted to supporting and protecting families.

 

About Joyeux, the article reads as follows:

 

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His opponents see in his writings connections with the thesis espoused by certain sects, such as instinct therapy and crudivorism (eating raw food). Henry Joyeux, they stress, has written the preface to many books on these topics by Bruno Comby, who personally showed up at the Castle of Montrâmes, which has been labeled as a “sect” by the [parliamentary] committee for the defense against sects.
[Laurence de Charette, Familles de France : un président contesté, Le Figaro, 22 April 2002]

 

The article also notes that Joyeux also authored a preface for a book by Jean Seignalet, another figure with connections to the world of instinct therapy. The book's title is "Nutrition, or the Third Medicine" [Jean Seignalet, L’alimentation ou la troisième médecin, O.E.I.L., Paris, 2001], and in his preface Joyeux defines it as "well documented, and truly scientific".

In his book, Jean Seignalet claims that a crudivorist diet (and, in particular, a method known as Burger) can treat a huge number of ailments.

 

 

Such a food regimen has been qualified as a “pseudo-scientific theory” by Dr. Jacques Frexinos, professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Toulouse, France, and head of the Gastroenterology department at the local hospital. In his article, Dr. Frexinos points to the crudivorists’ claims that their diet can be successfully applied “to dozens of disorders, from rheumatoid polyarthritis to cancer and leukemia, and also to ankylosing spondylarthritis, autoimmune rheumatologic diseases, autoimmune thyroid diseases, multiple sclerosis, active chronic hepatitis, myasthenia, tendinitis, osteoporosis, cephalgia, manic-depression disorder, schizophrenia, endogenous nervous depression, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, functional colon diseases, colitis (RHC and Chron’s disease), acne, eczema, psoriasis, asthma, bronchitis, and so on. There is not even enough room to quote them all! In fact, it would be easier to make a list of those pathologies that are not treated by this diet."

 

 

Dr. Philippe Loron

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A collaborator of Prof. Joyeux during his Medjugorje investigation (although he joined the group only at the end of the 80s), and, as Joyeux, fellow adherent to Charismatic Renewal, is the neurologist Dr. Philippe Loron.

 

He himself stated, in a November 11, 1990 letter addressed to the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Damascus, Ignatius IV Hazim:

 

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I am working together with Prof. Joyeux and Father Laurentin on the ecstasies experienced by the young seers of Medjugorje.
[Philippe Loron, Constat médical et analyses scientifiques des evénements de Soufanieh, ("Medical Report and Scientific Analyses of the Events in Soufanieh"), F.X. de Guibert, Paris, 1992, p. 73]

 

In his book Le Mystère de la Royauté Sacrée (“The Mistery of the Holy Royalty”) [Resiac, 2000], Dr. Loron states that the French monarchy will be restored, and "this French Great Monarch [...] will make it possible to relaunch France’s true mission” [P. Loron, Le Mystère de la Royauté Sacrée, p. 126].

 

 

The “true mission” consists of no less than “restoring the true Catholic faith” [ibid., p. 99]. Dr. Loron adds what follows:

 

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In my view, it is not a matter of being a royalist, and even less to support one or the other candidate to the throne. These events will simply take place by means of divine will, according to the many prophecies that have been already published on these matters.
[Philippe Loron, Le Mystère de la Royauté Sacrée, Resiac, Montsûrs, 2000, p. 100]

 

In the same book Loron gives credit to a story (which originates in the Early Middle Ages) according to which the Gospel figure of Mary Magdalene introduced the Christian religion in Provence, and had her body completely covered of body hairs, a characteristic that she shared with many Old Testament prophets.

 

Dr. Loron notices that body hairs share "the same embryological origin (ectodermal) of the nervous system" [ibid., p. 93]. Thus the doctor asks himself:

 

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May hairiness be a sign of sensitivity, of sharp intuition?
[Ibid., p. 94]

 

Body hairs, one reads in Loron’s book, should be studied thoroughly and very soon, that is:

 

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... before culture, fashion, social conditioning, and rational and skeptical education choke this vital tendencies. In fact, we do witness the rejection, culturally acceptable in so-called ‘evolved’ societies, of body hairiness on women, who, with the excuse of elegance and hygiene, shave their legs and their armpits. One poll has shown that in 1995 67% of French women admitted to shaving, while they were only 48% in 1981.
[Ibid., p. 83]

 

We should also mention Loron’s defense of Vassula Ryden [P. Loron, J’ai vu écrire Vassula. Analyse scientifique de la Vraie Vie en Dieu, F.-X. de Guibert, Paris, 1994)], who espouses an eccentric mixture of Christianity and New Age, who claims to receive, through a procedure akin to automatic writing, messages from Jesus Christ.

 

Dr. Loron also investigated Myrna, a supposed mystic of Soufanieh (a neighborhood of Damascus, Siria). He actually authored a book on the subject, Constat médical et analyses scientifiques des événements de Soufanieh (Medical report and scientific analyses of the events in Soufanieh) where, for example, two pages are devoted to a “study” on the “Morphopsychological profile of Myrna, based on a dozen pictures taken during the Easter Week by a morphopsychologist not involved in the case”.

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The “study” contains astonishing passages, like the following excerpt:

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Myrna possesses an instinctual dominant trait […] betrayed by her well developed jawbone, which reveals «grounding» into material reality, joy of living. […] Her second dominant trait is affective: her downward nose reveals a tendency to devote herself to others with a very spontaneous trust. However, she also shows a latero-nasal retreat (compression of the cheeckbones), which causes her to interiorize her generosity and avoid social interaction.
Therefore, she possesses a basic extroversion (large face) and a need to interact with others, together with a morphology that pushes her towards interiorizing her feelings. This condition might result in a conflict, whose roots can be found in her childhood relationships (a impediment in relationships, or one of affective nature, which she probably encountered during her childhood) […]. It is possible that she did not feel sufficiently appreciated in her childhood or teenage years; the latero-nasal retreat on her face denotes a serious emotional frustration. […] Her big eyes, open over the world, testify to her imagination, her intuition.
[Loron, Constat médical et analyses scientifiques des événements de Soufanieh, F.-X. de Guibert, Paris, 1992, pp. 80-81]

 

 

Dr. Loron is also a follower of Hildegard medicine, a holistic therapeutic approach based on the theories of the XII century nun Hildegard of Bingen. This medical system is claimed to derive from Hildegard’s own divine revelations. It depends on the usage of medicinal herbs and stones, which are applied on different parts of the body.

 

 

On the website of the association Les Jardins d’Hildegarde ("The Gardens of Hildegard") one can find a catalog of Hildegard medicine products. Among those, on pages 23-26, is a list of “therapeutic stones”.

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