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From: dkhusema@faui44.UUCP (Dirk Husemann)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article
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Date: 28 Jul 88 13:27:57 GMT
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From article <2263@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, by pell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Pelletier):
> [A lot of stuff deleted ...]
> ...
>
> Nature is planing a follow-up report in a couple of weeks.  This will be based
> on investigations currently being conducted by a group of "experts."
> This group includes not only other immunologists but also "The Amazing
> Randi" (No joke, they really are sending him).  I rather doubt Beneviste is
> sending secret messages to the cells through a radio transmitter, but,
> perhaps he can help.  Beneviste is cooperating fully in the investigation
> (which is more than Uri Geller ever did).

	At the begining of the week I read the results of this in the papers
here (Sueddeutsche Zeitung). The publisher of Nature was reported as being
really rejective about Beneviste's work now. Beneviste himself was quoted 
with a rather low opinion of the investigators.

	What I can't understand is why they sent it those people as in-
vestigators in the first place. After all, what *is* Nature, the Sun (Na-
tional Enquirer) of the sciences? At least it seems like a pretty weird
practise to send in a *magician* ("The Amazing Randi") to investigate an
issue which has been verified by other labs also ...

	But - after all, I'm *not* a biologist either ...

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> 
> Oh well, there may be a missed control somewhere, but I doubt it.
> If I were of a different religious inclination, I would suggest that this
> is God's way of saying to us scientists "Hey, don't get cocky!"
> 
> -tony