The Memory of Water: Homoeopathy and the Battle of Ideas in the New ScienceThe highly controversial Benveniste affair reported in Nature magazine, proving that water has a memory, is one of the most significant in the field of modern science. Beneviste believes that water retains the memory of molecules it once contained: if solutions of antibodies were diluted repeatedly until they no longer contained a single molecule of antibody, they still produced a response from immune cells. |
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