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* Bell IR (2005) [http://www.homeopathy.org/research/editorials/Bell.pdf All Evidence Is Equal, but Some Evidence Is More Equal than Others: Can Logic Prevail over Emotion in the Homeopathy Debate?] ''The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine''.  11:763-9. doi:10.1089/acm.2005.11.763.
* Bell IR (2005) [http://www.homeopathy.org/research/editorials/Bell.pdf All Evidence Is Equal, but Some Evidence Is More Equal than Others: Can Logic Prevail over Emotion in the Homeopathy Debate?] ''The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine''.  11:763-9. doi:10.1089/acm.2005.11.763.


==Those who use homeopathy==
'''Those who use homeopathy'''
* Dana Ullman (2008) ''The Homeopathic Revolution: Famous People and Cultural Heroes Who Chose Homeopathy'' North Atlantic Books,U.S. ISBN 1556436718 Contains personal stories and quotes from Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Martina Navratilova, David Beckham, Marlene Dietrich, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Orlando Bloom, Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Frederic Chopin, Vincent Van Gogh, Cindy Crawford, Bill Clinton, Florence Nightingale, Mother Teresa and others
* Dana Ullman (2008) ''The Homeopathic Revolution: Famous People and Cultural Heroes Who Chose Homeopathy'' North Atlantic Books,U.S. ISBN 1556436718 Contains personal stories and quotes from Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Martina Navratilova, David Beckham, Marlene Dietrich, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Orlando Bloom, Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Frederic Chopin, Vincent Van Gogh, Cindy Crawford, Bill Clinton, Florence Nightingale, Mother Teresa and others

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On the structure of water

  • Martin Chaplin, professor of applied sciences at London South Bank University, provides a comprehensive review of research about water structure:Water Structure and Science; Martin Chaplin's website. The July 2007 issue of the journal, Homeopathy, was edited by Chaplin and is devoted to the "memory of water." Copies of the articles in this special issue are freely available at a skeptic's website along with discussion (primarily from skeptics).(Homeopathy Journal Club Bad Science, a blog by Ben Goldacre)
An article from materials science (32 pages) in a journal that "is especially suited for the publication of results which are so new, so unexpected, that they are likely to be rejected by tradition-bound journals" [1]. Introduces many notions that are generally not well known by biologists and chemists, such as the implantation of qi into water by Qigong grandmasters. Presents the notion of epitaxy, a well known phenomenon in the industry. Roy also covers the 6 anomalies of water in light of the fact that water is not a random arrangement of single H2O molecules, but a combination of different phases (or 3D arrangements) of water molecules clusters. Disputes the current view of the majority of spectroscopists and theorists that the molecule in the liquid is surrounded tetrahedrally by 4 other water molecules. States that there is terminological confusion between structure in biochemistry and structure in materials science. See the rendition of a typical water structure (p 29). Roy adddresses the objection that such H2O arrangements are short lived, but does not discuss recent femtosecond (femto = 10−15) laser spectroscopy experiments, where it is found that hydrogen bonds are broken and reformed on a time scale of pico (pico = 10−12) seconds. Notes on the role of Van der Waals bonds in determining the properties of materials. The authors provide the tools to analyze homeopathic preparations, explaining why some techniques (including Raman) are adequate, while other are not, to characterize the structure of water. Presents in Fig. 17 some illegible Raman data on tap water, allegedly proving that the intramolecular vibrations (vibrations within the molecule, known to be relatively insensitive to the environment of the molecule) are changed by the emission of qi. Does not give the composition of the tap water. Raman data pertaining to intermolecular vibrations, which are very sensitive to the structure of water, are not given.

On the effect of dilutions on the properties of water

  • V. Eliaa et al. (2007) Conductometric studies of the serially diluted and agitated solutions on an anomalous effect that depends on the dilution process, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Volume 135, Issues 1-3, 31:158-165

Publication bias against homeopathy

also see related articles in pubmed here.

The Benveniste-Davenas affair (Memory of water paper in Nature, 1988)

  • See Khuda-Bukhsh AR(2006) (cited above), p. 326. In response to a critique, Khuda-Bukhsh replies that, contrary to common belief, the results by Davenas & al. were replicated in several centers. This is one of the most serious accusations of publication bias formulated against mainstream journals concerning homeopathy.

Concerning the Lancet 2005 study calling for the end homeopathy trials


Those who use homeopathy

  • Dana Ullman (2008) The Homeopathic Revolution: Famous People and Cultural Heroes Who Chose Homeopathy North Atlantic Books,U.S. ISBN 1556436718 Contains personal stories and quotes from Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Martina Navratilova, David Beckham, Marlene Dietrich, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Orlando Bloom, Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Frederic Chopin, Vincent Van Gogh, Cindy Crawford, Bill Clinton, Florence Nightingale, Mother Teresa and others