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).
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On 31 August 2009 he kindly sent me a comment on those parts of my book that deal with scientific analyses.
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With his permission, I reproduced here the ending part of his letter:
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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
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Many years later, Dr. Gagliardi asked me to write the preface for the new edition of his book La Madonna negata (Vertigo, 2023).
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Here is the text of my preface:
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