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BBC NEWS , By Simon Singh

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The news that the number of prescriptions for homeopathic medicines written by GPs in England has nearly halved in just two years coincides with the 20th anniversary of a seminal scientific paper on the subject.

Twenty years ago, in the summer of 1988, the science world was rocked by one of the most controversial research papers ever published in the highly-respected journal Nature.

According to a charismatic French scientist named Jacques Benveniste , pure water
could somehow remember what it had previously contained.

Benveniste had started with a substance that caused an allergic reaction, he diluted it over
and over again until there was nothing left except water, and then he observed that the pure water still managed to trigger an allergic reaction when it was added to living cells.

If the experiment was correct then it would mean rewriting the laws of physics and chemistry.

Phenomenon

Similarly, Benveniste started a spin-off company called DigiBio, which claimed that water could not only have a memory, but that this memory could be digitized, transmitted via email and reintroduced into another sample of water, which in turn could have an impact on living cells.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tested DigiBio’s claim and came to the following conclusion: “Our team found no replicable effects from digital signals.”

Nevertheless, Benveniste’s research continues to be very influential among many homeopaths, such as Alex Tournier, the founding director of the Homeopathy Research Institute.

He said: “Benveniste was a very inspiring and dedicated scientist, who at the very apogee of his career at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, was ready to put his reputation on the line to report a phenomenon he didn’t understand: homeopathic dilutions.

“Homeopathy is still not understood, however his efforts started a new era of rigorous scientific investigation of the field.”

Other homeopaths are convinced by Benveniste’s idea of digital homeopathy and are even willing to sell such remedies over the internet.

The vast majority of scientists would argue that, because there is still no convincing evidence that homeopathy is effective after 200 clinical trials, the idea that digitized homeopathy can help patients is fanciful.

Serious question marks remain over the Benveniste paper, but what is not in doubt is that its influence among homeopaths is still powerful and profound 20 years on.

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