Water memory

Water memory is largely the result of work performed by the late French immunologist Jacques Benveniste. Water memory is a homeopathic field of research which holds that water is capable of containing "memory" of particles dissolved in it, and that this information may be retrieved, or even transmitted via telephone or the Internet. Furthermore, this memory allows water to retain the properties of the original solute even when there is literally no solute left in the solution.

Benveniste's work was an attempt to construct a mechanistic explanation for homeopathy (as the beliefs of homopathy rely upon the "memory" of highly diluted solutions relating to their potency). His views on water memory are almost uniformly dismissed by mainstream science researchers. Many of his results have not been successfully replicated in other laboratories; in fact, Benveniste's own team was unable to replicate key findings when their work was supervised by an independent review group.

A distantly related series of "polywater" experiments performed by Soviet scientist Boris Derjaguin led to a much research interest before it was determined that the findings resulted from poorly controlled experiments and theories.

See also

• Bad science
• Pathological science
• Pseudoscience
• Protoscience
• Junk science
• Scientific misconduct

External link

• DigiBio (http://www.digibio.com)

Reference

"Transatlantic Transfer of Digitized Antigen Signal by Telephone Link," J. Benveniste, P. Jurgens, W. Hsueh and J. Aissa, "Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - Program and abstracts of papers to be presented during scientific sessions AAAAI/AAI.CIS Joint Meeting February 21-26, 1997"

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