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The memory of water...

Sanjay Palnitkar palnitka at umdnj.edu
Tue Sep 3 09:20:04 EST 1996


berezin at MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA (Alexander Berezin) writes:



>On 30 Aug 1996, FRANCISCO J HERNANDEZ BLAZQUEZ fzea - zab 0195 616122 - 283 wrote:

>> On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, daniel alexander wrote:
>> 
>> > A friend of mine saw a documentary on this and asked me to find out 
>> > something about it...I was rudely sceptical, but does anyone know 
>> > where I can find something to put his mind at rest? Cheers
>> > Reply to  alexandd at vax.sbu.ac.uk
>> > 
>> 
>> I saw something ......
>> Somewhere........
>> But I don't remember, my memory is a bit fluid, sorry :-)
>> 

>There is a quite a development in this area.
>(memory effect in water). You can look for:
>'Ultra High Dilution' (Physiology and Physics),
>Eds. P.C. Endler, J. Schilte,
>Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1994
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>Alexander A. Berezin, PhD
>Department of Engineering Physics
>McMaster University, Hamilton,
>Ontario, Canada, L8S 4L7
>tel. (905) 525-9140 ext. 24546
>e-mail: BEREZIN at MCMASTER.CA
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> 
> 

I vaguely remember an article in 'Nature' a few years ago regarding 
memory in water, specifically dealing with water able to retain 'memory' 
of antibodies upon extensive dilutions wherein theoretically no antibody 
molecule would be present.  There was a lot of hue and cry about this 
article (One of the authors was Benveniste, not sure of the spelling) and 
a lot of controversy!  I guess John Maddox had sent an investigative team 
to check the findings.  Believe it was later found not to be true!!!

Sanjay

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Sanjay Palnitkar PhD
Department of Anesthesia
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ



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