The "dark side" of Professor Seralini

About Invitation to Life
Gilles-Eric Séralini is a consultant for Sevene Pharma, based in the Cévennes region in France, and conducts most of the company’s “experimental“ research. He also spends a significant part of his time promoting so-called detoxification products, for example at a training seminar organised by Corinne Lepage’s CRIIGEN, with lectures organised by Sevene Pharma and at symposiums on alternative medicine where speakers also include IVI figures.
To carry out his studies commissioned by the small company based in the Cévennes region, Gilles-Eric Séralini took on Cécile Decroix-Laporte, the former HR director of Sevene Pharma, as a member of his research team in Caen, together with Claire Laurant-Berthoud, her “scientific colleague and coordinator of clinical data“, who is also a supporter of Invitation to Life and has been for more than twenty years 1. Other IVI supporters have also provided him with substantial funding, thus making
it possible for him to carry out eight of his studies. There is, for example, Anne de Constantin who runs the Denis Guichard Foundation and who, in 2010, wrote the preface to a book by Yvonne Trubert the founder of Invitation to Life; Anne de Constantin is a shareholder in Sevene Pharma, as are other well-known figures in Invitation to Life, including the current president, Daniel Chauvin, the current vice-president, Maud André-Vilgrain, and the former president, Georges Dulaurans. And that’s not all. The sales and marketing department of Sevene Pharma is located at IVI headquarters in Boulogne- Billancourt.
The production plant and head office of Sevene Pharma are at the Domaine de Mazet, a property belonging to Marie d’Hennezel, a long-time IVI supporter who told her story in the book Invités à Vivre [Invited to Live], published in 2003.
“Overcoming the Kingdom of Satan“
The association Invitation to Life was founded in 1983 by a certain Yvonne Trubert (1932-2009) and soon had thousands of followers, mostly from upper middle-class backgrounds, often doctors, prominent figures in show business, directors, corporate managers and executives, and diplomats. This amazing success aroused the curiosity of the media and in 1987, Chantal de Rudder, a journalist with the weekly magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, looked into the sort of “Christ-likecharismatic-
Hindu-naturopathic-bio-energetic-like IVI system“, describing how “Granny Yvonne, previously an overlock seamstress, has the kingdom of Satan and cancer scoured clean.“ As one female follower explained: “With everything that’s happened, the Earth has been asphyxiated by negative forces. It’s an orange with the pores clogged up. Yvonne’s job is to open up the pores in the orange once more so that the light can come down to earth.“ And how does she do it ? There is prayer, plus two essential spiritual tools which Yvonne Trubert has: harmonisation and vibrations. Explanations can be found in
the IVI manuals: “Following a specific system of movements, harmonisation focuses on certain areas of the body which correspond to energy centres known as chakras, related to a certain number of organs and physiological functions. […]
Harmonisation means that physical symptoms such as pain can be relieved, and we know that there is subjective involvement in pain. Results seen with first and second degree burns are relevant as they are objective, systematic and irrefutable: reports on burns victims and their injuries provide concrete evidence that harmonisation is effective.” And there are vibrations which “emit a chorus of sounds like mantras being chanted, having an effect on energy, helping release inner tensions in the person
who is then reconnected with the earth. By calling on “breath and sound” it is possible to create an “opening onto a vibration frequency affecting both earthly and cosmic forms of energy.”
The Hidden Side of IVI
In 1988, a TV crew from France’s second national station did a report on Yvonne during a seminar in the town of Cros in the Cévennes region where she was introducing followers to harmonisation. The report included recommendations which she had given at a previous seminar: “For bone cancer, you give virtually nothing. Just magnesium with trace elements, one ampoule, and there’s always the calcium binder. And the miracle goes on: the holes, which are usually in the thighbones or
arms or spinal column, disappear, recalcifying by themselves, and often in record time. So you don’t need to worry about how the bone will regenerate. Don’t worry. God looks after it and he certainly knows how to do it.“
Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, shingles – there’s nothing that can stand up to Granny Yvonne. “Leukaemia ? With the care you’ll be able to give, you end up completely irrigating and destroying the disease. Metastasis will disappear beneath your fingers.“ Yvonne Trubert’s lessons are printed in a booklet under the title Homme nouveau – Nouvelle médecine [New Man – New Medicine], written in 1985 by Dr. Maud André-Vilgrain and Claire Laurant; they announce the advent of
a new era: “Now, leaving the era centred on chemistry, biochemistry and physics which was the 20th century, we are moving onto the century of alchemy, i.e. of the possibility of transforming all matter, solely through the energy of love.“
IVI activities were cause for more and more concern. The weekly magazine L’Express reported that the National Day for the Prevention of Suicide “had almost been taken over by a sect.“ “This would have been so if there had not been revelations in the magazine Le Canard enchaîné: Agnès and Bernard Loiseau, senior IVI figures, infiltrated the organisers, posing as representatives of the magazine Psychologies. […] Confronted with the scandal, the magazine Psychologies, which refuses to have any associations with the IVI sect or with Mr. & Mrs. Loiseau, withdrew from the event“, as was reported by L’Express.
Two years after the article was published, the magazine noted that IVI, “despite its ‘miraculous’ prayers, has its dark side.“ In a feature article under the title “The Sects that Claim to Cure“, the magazine L’Express warned readers: “Are these wild dreams of cures surrealistic ? No, they are tragic. Sects kill.“ Then the magazine told the story of Nadine Schuster. “She was an IVI follower from the very beginning and was struck off the medical register of practising doctors by the French medical
board for serious professional misconduct and charlatanism, her victims being an AIDS patient and two women suffering from cancer.“ These three cases were not the only ones cited by L’Express which also reported the case of a female patient treated by two IVI doctors; she had a tumour on her hand: “They placed their hands over chakras, to open them and cause energy to be released; but a large number of these ‘harmonisations’ and the homeopathic treatment specially prepared by the company
Theophane clearly did not solve the problem. No cancer expert had ever seen such a huge tumour, weighing more than one kilo, a monstrous object reminiscent of the Middle Ages. And [the patient] was suffering, atrocious pain.
Before dying she told the story of how she had discovered IVI, in a pathetic letter written to Yvonne Trubert who was the leader of her prayer group.“…

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