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From: sierch@well.UUCP (Michael Sierchio)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article
Keywords: homeopathy
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Date: 3 Aug 88 16:39:47 GMT
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Beneviste is not making a claim for something "impossible" in the
context of current theory.  He is making a claim for an effect for
which the current theory has no explanation.  Like Maxwell. Or
Semmelweiss. 

Remember that the Royal Society said that meteorites were the products
of over-active imaginations -- as Lavoisier said (or whomever) --
there are no stones in the sky -- therefore, no stones can fall from the sky.

It may be that the effect he is describing IS the product of self-delusion
and systematic fraud.  But your notions about the purpose of science and
the state of theory I find objectionable.  Whenever someone says something
is impossible, put yer hand on yer wallet!
-- 
	Michael Sierchio @ Small Systems Solutions

	sierch@well.UUCP
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