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From: apm@oasis.icl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Merritt x2109)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article (fallout...)
Keywords: skepticism debunking
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Date: 4 Aug 88 08:30:08 GMT
References: <1911@aecom.YU.EDU> <6445@megaron.arizona.edu> <492@metapsy.UUCP> <1930@aecom.YU.EDU> <6086@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <6086@spool.cs.wisc.edu> mayo@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Bob Mayo) writes:
%In article <492@metapsy.UUCP>, sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
%> I found the data on the Amazing Randi's investigation of the Nature article
%
%I can see the headlines now...
%
%    "Beneviste experiment degranulated by an infinitely dilute scientist"

** Not quite a spelling flame **
More likely:
    "Benveniste experiment degranulated by an infinitely dilute scientist"
     ^^^^^^^^^^

At least get the guy's name right, it's only common courtesy.

I've only seen second hand reports, in New Scientist, but it looks like there
are procedural deficiencies in the experiments, and the results were not
reproduced under the 'double-blind' conditions introduced by Randi et al.
The involvement of homeopathy supporters at both Benveniste's and the
corroborating laboratories is also a cause for doubts about unconscious
bias.
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