In an interview in French newspaper Le Monde, Noah said the best way to combat doping was to legalise the use of drugs and also appeared to accuse Spanish sport in particular of using "magic potions".
Asked about Noah's comments at the ATP World Tour Finals where an ailing Nadal beat American Mardy Fish despite an upset stomach, the Spaniard was clearly angry.
"What's can I say? That's going to be difficult to explain what I feel in English," the 25-year-old 10-times grand slam champion told reporters.
"What he said is completely stupid and he knows better than nobody. To say that today is a totally stupid thing because you know how many anti-doping controls we are having during all the season year by year.
"So, in my opinion, his article, what he wrote, was from a kid. And when one kid say something, is not painful for us. So that's what I feel.
Determined
"I don't know how to say in English, but especially I think that's worse for France. Is worse for his country than for our country, in my opinion, because the image of the country when one guy, important guy like him, says that, is terrible."
Nadal's hopes of winning the ATP World Tour Finals for the first time were almost undermined at the first hurdle on Sunday when a mystery stomach bug struck during a late-night thriller against American Mardy Fish.
The Spanish world number two, playing his first match after a month lay-off, eventually won his Group B opener 6-2 3-6 7-6 but he needed to rush off court early in the deciding set suffering with what he called a "terrible stomach".
The 10-times grand slam champion was having enough trouble subduing tournament debutant Fish as it was before feeling ill.
However, despite losing three games in a row after returning from the toilet, he displayed his trademark fighting spirit to avoid a defeat that would have left his chances of reaching the semi-finals in real jeopardy.
Stomach trouble
Afterwards he explained what had happened. "I really need to come back to hotel and rest a little bit because I played for one hour suffering a lot," he told reporters. "Because when you don't feel well, you have to keep running, all the muscles are more tired than usual.
"I don't know what it was. I just ate some pasta before the match. For the lunch, I eat some pasta with salmon at the hotel. So nothing strange and nothing unusual."
Noah, the 1983 French Open champion, caused controversy when he spoke out in Le Monde on Saturday, saying: "Let's stop the hypocrisy. The best attitude to adopt is to accept doping. Then everyone will have the magic potion."
His comments drew scorn from France's sports minister. David Douillet, an Olympic judo champion, responded by telling France 2 TV that the comments were "serious and irresponsible".
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