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Placed in the public domain from the VANGARD SCIENCES archives on
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September 8, 1989. Our mailing address is PO BOX 1031, Mesquite, TX
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75150. Voice phone (Jerry 214-324-8741...Ron 214-484-3189
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KeelyNet (214) 324-3501
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Laboratory Verification of Homeopathy?
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New York (AP)
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A prestigious journal announced today it will launch an independent
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investigation of a series of experimental findings that have been
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CONFIRMED AROUND THE WORLD yet DEFY ANY CONCEIVABLE (?) scientific
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explanation.
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Researchers at five separate laboratories in France, Canada, Israel and
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Italy reported today they have identified a curious antibody reaction
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involving human blood cells that should, by any imaginable theory, be
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impossible.
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"It's unbelievable and it breaks all the rules," said one of the
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researchers, Patricia Fortner, an immunology research associate at the
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University of Toronto.
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The researchers have found that antibodies that react with certain blood
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cells will continue to react when diluted far beyond the point where
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they should theoretically be able to.
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The reaction occurs EVEN AT EXTREME DILUTIONS where there are
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theoretically NO ANTIBODY MOLECULES LEFT in the solution, said Fortner.
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"This has really shaken up our world," she said. "Even people who have
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seen this phenomenon FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE, because it's hard to
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conceive what could be happening here."
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The report appears in Nature, an influential British medical journal.
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Nature's editors were as perplexed by the research as were the
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researchers. Its referees - scientific experts chosen to affirm the
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soundness of the research before it is published - DIDN'T BELIEVE THE
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RESULT BUT COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE CONDUCT OF THE
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EXPERIMENTS, the magazine said.
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The scientist principally responsible for the inexplicable results is
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Dr. Jacques Benveniste of INSERM, the French medical research institute.
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The findings are an outgrowth of his efforts to develop a new blood test
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to identify allergies.
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Fortner, Bruce Pomeranz and others at the University of Toronto have
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independently duplicated Benveniste's findings, as have two research
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groups in Israel and one in Milan, Fortner said.
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In its statement, Nature said of the findings, "There is no physical
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basis for such an activity. With the kind collaboration of Professor
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Benveniste, Nature has therefore arranged for independent investigators
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to observe repetitions of the experiments."
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Other findings by Benveniste have added further mystery. For example,
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the phenomenon occurs only when the extremely diluted solutions are
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mixed violently in the laboratory, said Fortner. Without this violent
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shaking, called SUCCUSSION, nothing happens.
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Why? Unkown, Fortner said.
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Furthermore, if the extremely diluted solutions are HEATED OR FROZEN,
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which would destroy any antibodies in them, THE REACTION DOESN'T OCCUR,
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Fortner said.
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Yet there aren't supposed to be any antibodies present, so the question
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is: What is being changed?
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Benveniste's findings fuel a long-standing dispute over the
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effectiveness of a controversial school of disease treatment called
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HOMEOPATHY.
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"Homeopathy basically says that the same substance that can cause a
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problem - if you can identify that element and dilute it into very small
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doses, INFINITESIMAL DOSES, it can CURE or AMELIORATE those symptoms,"
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said Robert Matsuk, a pharmacist at Boiron-Borneman, a homeopathic
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pharmaceutical.
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VANGARD COMMENTS follow....
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This paper was one of the original US releases of this story, subsequent
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investigation was done by of all people, the AMAZING RANDI and the
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editor of Nature. Could you possibly choose more qualified people to
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judge a medical/biological experiment??
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Apparently, water and fluids in general can temporarily "record" energy
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patterns which can then be ingested to affect the body.
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In homeopathy, this "treated" fluid, water or alcohol, is allowed to
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permeate a sugar cube for a more permanent "capture" of the pattern.
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Obviously, any field influence which is stronger will overcome the
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pattern which is held in the fluid, so a more "frozen" form would be
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less susceptible to outside influences.
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The body is comprised of a large quantity of fluid which makes it highly
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susceptible to "patterns". These can be any type of energetic
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disturbance from magnetism to light to sound, etc.. Refer to DNAMAST1
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and DNAMAST2 for further information.
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