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The Memory of Water: Homoeopathy and the Battle of Ideas in the New Science Paperback – January 1, 1998

by Michel Schiff (Author)
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Looks at the experiments of Jacques Beneveniste, whose work supports the claims of homeopaths, and discusses the backlash against his work by the scientific community
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  1. Print length
    166 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Thorsons Pub
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1998
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0722535341
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0722535349
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thorsons Pub (January 1, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 166 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0722535341
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0722535349
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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  • Ewall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Timely first-hand account
    Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2001
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    "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident" - Arthur Schopenhauer
    The book' author Schiff worked in Benveniste's lab and documents successful replication work, as well as attempted replication work by others. The book is not written to support any particular conclusions about possible memory of water so much as to document events ensuing from publication of extraordinary data. The investigators are not drawing hard-and-fast scientific conclusions (no hint of Schopenhauer's third stage) as to the specific nature and mechanism of the apparent discoveries. So, it is not only inappropriate to ridicule those curious about the subject, but it is anti-scientific to be making ad hominem attacks when the investigators are proceeding in an erudite fashion, from what I can see by reading the book.
    The situation of the apparently rational laboratory director Benveniste (p. 98 reports Science Citation Index records more than 1000 references to his work in the period 1986 - 1991, five times greater than the average number of citations among those 30 scientists who directed a laboratory belonging to the same section in INSERM as Benveniste) has been and is willing to risk his every career gain to continue the work. It is most unfortunate that easy attacks have been the scientific community's preferred method of response to this remarkable man's unusual claims.
    The book is mainly a pleading to allow science to proceed as science ought to proceed, uncertainty and all. Schiff does not claim to know that Benveniste is correct in all his assertions.
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  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars High Priets and Science
    Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2001
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    The history of science is a history of new ideas against old ideas. "Official" scientists try by all means and forms to impede
    the advancement of science. This has been so since the dawn of
    times. Almost always a new idea only finds its place after the
    present generation of scientists and dea and buried. Organizations seem to exist with the only purpose to work as a
    gatekeeper deciding which ideas are acceptable to science an which are not.
    Trough history, how many brilliant ideas have been turned down by established high priests of science? Hundreds. Some eventually mae their way to the light and filled of shame the censors who could not distinguish a new idea from quackery.
    Even great minds may be victimized by arrogance and prepotency. Comes to mind Harrison's fight against the Royal Academy of Science in the chronograph/longitude issue when Newton himself (among other geniuses like Halley) shamefully barred Harrison from his well-deserved prize an pride.
    This book is a MUST READ. If you ever suspected that established science may be working against your interests, rest assured it is. Read this book.
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  • Frank Bierbrauer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Another nail in the coffin of the spirit of discovery
    Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2000
    "The Memory of Water" is not so much about homeopathy but rather about the possibility of water having the ability to store information in some way. The research of Jacques Benveniste was set up to look into this question. I hear you say : no problem sounds like a good idea since some people have said that this is possible, specifically those practising hemeopathy (and for that matter electronic acupuncture which is practised with electrodes and vials containing the active substances which are dissolved in water). Further it seems that science being a profession supposedly designed to investigate nature in all its forms should jump at the opportunity. Just the contrary occurred, Benveniste almost lost his job, he lost his funding, his labs were closed down and ridicule followed even though he had a long standing reputation as a diligent and exacting scientist. In other words the message was : don't study things which the greater scientific community considers taboo no matter how much evidence appears to demonstrate some phenomenon or even the benefits which might follow. Into this climate Schiff has written a book explaining the progress of both the research into the memory of water and the consequences suffered by Benveniste's and his co-workers from the scientific establishment.
    The book starts by looking into the possibility that molecules can send information electromagnetically through water inside the cell. Certainly not a ridiculous possibility since electric potentials exist within the cell and as such so must electric and magnetic fields, this is not denied by conventional science but the possibility that electromagnetic signalling occurs, is. The book goes on to describe briefly the coherent domains approach developed by Giuliano Preparata and Emilio Del Giudice two eminent physicists who proposed a way for millions of molecules to act coherently and allow EM signalling.
    The book then continues with the techniques used to investigate the potency of homeopathic dilutions which have been diluted until not even one molecule of the active substance remains and yet the dilution is still active. Lots of detail is gone into discussing the materials used and their applicability.
    Further chapters describe the reactions to the research where some scientists/organisations have used quite vitriolic language to discredit the work, this is concluded by the visitation to Benveniste's lab of James Randi and his "team" of debunkers. The lengths that the establishment will go to to protect its security is astonishing.
    I felt that, given the report of Schiff, Benveniste's work was very well conducted with exacting detail and all stops were pulled out to ensure correct procedure, similarly one finds that a person of Benveniste's reputation and well known quality as a scientists should never have been under question. However I woud have liked far more interesting information on the properties of such research, but then the book was written to clear the air surrounding the research and its viability. Benveniste is now working at a research institute set up by benefactors and he is fully investigating the properties of water and its medical applications. A timely book to remind everyone of the consequences of upsetting the status quo.
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  • ACE
    4.0 out of 5 stars Useful for research
    Reviewed in Canada on October 31, 2014
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    Mostly a book on how the establishment have dismissed homeopathy and missing what I needed for my research
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