Re: [tips] Distinguished scientist descends into pseudoscience

2010-12-12 Thread Christopher D. Green
Eek! Water memory. Isn't that the excuse homeopaths use for how infinitesimal bits of (whatever), diluted by millions of times as much water, might still be able to cure disease (rather than just be extremely expensive water). The least he could do is indulge in an interesting fantasy. Chris

Re: [tips] Distinguished scientist descends into pseudoscience

2010-12-12 Thread Claudia Stanny
Any connection to the old (and, I assume, discredited) hypothesis about structured water from the 1960s? Bad ideas just never seem to go away . . . . Claudia On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: That's Luc Montagnier of France, who received the Nobel Prize in 2008 for

Re: [tips] Distinguished scientist descends into pseudoscience

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Stevens
I think he has added a bit of new... something... to the memory of water story. It sounds like you could hook an EEG to water with memory, receive the electromagnetic signals and send it to people over the internet. It sounds like a business opportunity to me. ...controversial idea championed

Re: [tips] Distinguished scientist descends into pseudoscience

2010-12-12 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I was struck by the avoidance of the word homeopathy in the article. A little googling revealed Harriet Hall's excellent piece on why Montagier's earlier research contradicted rather than supported homeopathy. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2081 The article also explains the