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Old 10th October 2004, 04:45 AM
Sheri Nakken
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Default More on......Dr. Jacques Benveniste ('Memory of Water') DIED3rd October

Dr. Jacques Benveniste, who discovered the theory of the 'memory of water' while researching the efficacy of homeopathic dilutions, DIED on 3rd October, 2004 after a surgical intervention went wrong in Paris, France.


Below that is Jacques Benveniste's homepage from his website www.digibio.com

Some pages on google on his death
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...ues+Benveniste

Here is the google translation of this French article

Jacques Benveniste died

That which had discovered a memory with water fifteen years ago is deceased, bet of it research, this weekend in Paris.

By Eric FAVEREAU

Monday October 04, 2004 (Liberation.fr - 17:41)

acques Benveniste, personality iconoclaste of French biomedical research, died this weekend, of the continuations of a surgical operation in Paris. It was 69 years old. Face cordial, enquiring original, and with final tragic destiny. Jacques Benveniste will remain the man of a polemic. In which it will have very gained. And very lost. Very gained, because for the first time in 1988 a great international scientific review, Natural, published the report of its research where it seemed to highlight a completely unexplainable phenomenon, magnifiquement baptized "memory of water". Benvenist affirmed, evidence with the support, "that an antibody placed in aqueous solution could continue to cause a biological reaction, whereas dilution reaches rates such as the chances of presence of only one molecule of the antibody in the solution become null". Miraculous result, with the splendid images. Example: one drops a key in the sea to Brest, and to a few hundred kilometers from there, other with dimensions of the English Channel, the memory of a door could open. How not to dream on this water which would thus keep all the traces of the world? The aficionados of the homeopathic amounts could in the passing rub the hands of this discovery, the homeopathic laboratories having it true is mainly financed its work.

Benvenist lost all, then. The same review made little after call to two investigators - of which one was a illusionnist of famous international to try to reveal methodological skews of the experiment of our researcher. Single step in the history of the scientific publications. In any case, our two investigators some methodological faults which could, in their eyes will unearth, to explain these incredible results. It was, then, the beginning of a war of religion. Benvenist butted himself. Persisted, scrambled themselves and insulated themselves more and more moreover, to put on little by little the clothes of bet as scientific research can sometimes sew some. One did not speak any more this research, one did not speak any more but about his obsessional temperament. "the error belongs to the scientific process. It is because Newton was mistaken that one had Einstein. I am ostracized because I would have made an error ", still rose the biologist, in 2000. Whereas the majority of the scientific Establishment of planet had wearied itself of her combat, this doctor immunologist did not démordait any: "My experiments are in the process of complete reproducibility", ensured it, once again. Until the end, it continued. Losing with the passage the direction of its research laboratory in Inserm.

Jacques Benveniste had not always been a researcher with share. Until its disputed discovery, it had been one of the French scientists most published in immunology, its starting speciality, and most appreciated. In 1971, its discovery of a factor activator of the blood plates had even placed it in all the handbooks of medicine like on the list of the nobélisables.

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FRENCH version
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=243441&AG

Jacques Benveniste est mort

Celui qui avait découvert une mémoire à l'eau il y a quinze ans est décédé, en paria de la recherche, ce week-end à Paris.

Par Eric FAVEREAU

lundi 04 octobre 2004 (Liberation.fr - 17:41)

acques Benveniste, personnalité iconoclaste de la recherche biomédicale française, est mort ce week-end, des suites d'une opération chirurgicale à Paris. Il avait 69 ans. Visage chaleureux, chercheur original, et au final un destin tragique. Jacques Benveniste restera l'homme d'une polémique. Dans laquelle il aura tout gagné. Et tout perdu. Tout gagné, car pour la première fois en 1988 une grande revue scientifique internationale, Nature, publiait le compte-rendu de ses recherches où il semblait mettre en évidence un phénomène totalement inexplicable, magnifiquement baptisé «la mémoire de l'eau». Benveniste affirmait, preuves à l'appui, «qu'un anticorps placé en solution aqueuse pouvait continuer à provoquer une réaction biologique, alors que la dilution atteint des taux tels que les chances de présence d'une seule molécule de l'anticorps dans la solution deviennent nulles». Résultat miraculeux, aux images magnifiques. Exemple: on laisse tomber une clé dans la mer à Brest, et à quelques centaines de kilomètres de là, de l'autre coté de la Manche, le souvenir d'une porte pourrait s'ouvrir. Comment ne pas rêver sur cette eau qui garderait ainsi toutes les traces du monde? Les aficionados des doses homéopathiques pouvaient au passage se frotter les mains de cette découverte, les labos homéopathiques ayant il est vrai financés en grande partie ses travaux.

Benveniste perdit tout, ensuite. La même revue fit peu après appel à deux enquêteurs -dont l'un était un illusionniste de renommé internationale- pour tenter de révéler des biais méthodologiques de l'expérience de notre chercheur. Démarche unique dans l'histoire des publications scientifiques. En tout cas, nos deux enquêteurs dénicheront quelques fautes méthodologiques qui pouvaient, à leurs yeux, expliquer ces incroyables résultats. Ce fut, alors, le début d'une guerre de religions. Benveniste se buta. Persista, se brouilla et s'isola de plus en plus en plus, pour endosser peu à peu les habits du paria comme la recherche scientifique sait parfois en coudre. On ne parlait plus de ces recherches, on ne parlait plus que de son tempérament obsessionnel. «L'erreur fait partie du processus scientifique. C'est parce que Newton s'est trompé qu'on a eu Einstein. Je suis ostracisé parce que j'aurais commis une erreur», s'insurgeait encore le biologiste, en 2000. Alors que la majorité de l'establishment scientifique de la planète s'était lassé de son combat, ce médecin immunologiste n'en démordait pas: «Mes expériences sont en voie de reproductibilité complète», assurait-t-il, une nouvelle fois. Jusqu'au bout, il continua. Perdant au passage la direction de son laboratoire de recherches à l'Inserm.

Jacques Benveniste n'avait pas toujours été un chercheur à part. Jusqu'à sa découverte contestée, il avait été l'un des scientifiques français les plus publiés en immunologie, sa spécialité de départ, et les plus appréciés. En 1971, sa découverte d'un facteur activateur des plaquettes sanguines l'avait même placé dans tous les manuels de médecine ainsi que sur la liste des nobélisables.

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Old 10th October 2004, 05:25 AM
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Default Re: Dr. Jacques Benveniste ('Memory of Water') DIED 3rd October

Not to make light of his demise, but... that was the funniest translation I've read in a long time! Was it done with an automatic translating program?

I tried a program like it. It kept translating "Hahnemann" into "cock-man"

"Hahn" is "rooster" or "cock" in German.

JW

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