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Homeopathic water had an effect

The memory of water is systematically denied from the bench scientists, because the present theoretical model can not explain it.

Homeopathy is probably the most striking case to be numerous cases where it seems to occur, including its application on animals where the placebo effect is not justified.

On several occasions, one under the strict supervision of the team of the journal Nature, homeopathic water had an effect “theoretically impossible”, but real. The experiment in question made by the team of scientist Jacques Benveniste was rejected by Nature, not the test of double-blind, although produce relevant results when it was not subjected to double-blind test.

The double blind method is a major part of the scientific method, used to prevent research results prove to be “influenced” by the placebo effect or observer bias. Blind research is an important tool in many research fields, from medicine to psychology, and social sciences to forensic science.

However, observer bias, is the crucial fact that determines the result of a physical experiment when it occurs in the quantum realm of space-time, several experiments confirm this.

Can we keep the validity of the double-blind trial of this case, when it is precisely “observer bias” producing a phenomenon impossible? Read the rest of this entry »