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Landmark conference ‘New Horizons in Water Science: Evidence for ?’ (with apologies to J Lennon & P McCartney)

by Lionel Milgrom PhD MARH RHom and Dana Ullman MPH CCH

Foreword Some people not only have good ideas, but are also prepared to work hard to bring those ideas into fruition. Ken (or Lord Aaron Kenneth Ward Atherton, to give him his proper title) is one such person. He decided that we all needed a strong antidote to the ‘no evidence’ claims so frequently vaunted by the anti-homeopathy campaigners, and he organised a truly unforgettable one-day event (held at the Royal Society of , London), to remind us that Lionel (LRM) has been a homeopath for ‘proper’ science can be fascinating, inspiring and truly uplifting. over 20 years, training at the now defunct Ken’s impressive line-up of presenters were all internationally re- London College of Homeopathy, and the nowned scientists, including two Nobel laureates, and the theme Orion course in advanced homeopathy. He of the event was to explore the science underpinning our knowledge works from home now but has laboured of water structures. I came away from the day feeling really positive; at , , and an integrated our emerging understanding of the science of water structures may dental practice in London’s West End. He is well lead us to eventually being able to explain how homeopathy also a scientist (chemist; co-founding an can work at a purely energetic level. On behalf of Team ARH and anticancer biotech spinout company), the rest of the homeopathy community, I would like to thank Ken a science writer, and in his latest incarna- for having the determination, perseverance and, above all, the vision tion, a chemistry teacher. He came into for organising this outstanding event. homeopathy to ‘find out how it works’. Karin Mont ARH Chair Heading up the one-man Programme for Advanced Homeopathic Research, he has written over 170 publications in I read the news today, oh boy humanity, dangerously low on new both the scientific and CAM academic Picture this: we’re five or ten and ways to deal with an literatures on his ideas, including many rebuttals of the so-called ‘sceptical’ case years down the line and the wires alarming rise in chronic illnesses, against homeopathy. He wishes he’d (Reuters, Bloomberg, Facebook, are simply staggering. trained as a mathematician, jazz / concert Instagram, Internet, Tinder …) (As homeopaths, what would of pianist, blues harmonica player and Ninja are all buzzing with the news course have taken your fancy is the warrior … perhaps next time around? that Nobel Prizes in chemistry last item; but patience, dear reader, Dana has authored ten books, including and medicine have just been an- because what you are about to The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous nounced. The Chemistry Prize goes learn is that it is all of a piece, and People and Cultural Heroes Choose to ground-breaking research into that the common thread – indeed, Homeopathy, Homeopathic Medicines the science of water, enabling ready element – running through and for Children and Infants, and the best- desalination (giving millions across connecting all these discoveries is selling Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic

Medicines (with Stephen Cummings, MD). the planet access to fresh water), our dear old friend, aqua, l’eau, He has written an e-book, Evidence-Based a totally new method of electri- das Wasser, nero, thuk, jal, aiwe, Homeopathic Family Medicine, which cal power generation using just amanzi, voda, vann, vattern, su describes 300+ studies from peer-reviewed light and water, and stunning new … aka water, to name that vital medical journals with practical information insights into intra- / inter-cellular substance in just a few other on how to use homeopathic medicines for 100+ ailments. He founded Homeopathic (and longer-range) communication. languages from the burgeoning Educational Services, America’s leading The Medicine Prize is awarded to human populations of aqueous resource centre for homeopathic books, biochemists who unearthed the planet Earth.) medicines, and e-courses. His company action of ultra-diluted homeo- A pleasant fiction? Perhaps, has co-published 35 books on homeopathy pathic remedies, working at the because according to current so- with North Atlantic Books. level of gene regulation: the called ‘sane’ logic, we are supposed implications for 21st century to know more or less all there is

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to know about that ubiquitous sitting US President? Answer: they Lord Atherton over-exuberant passing LGBT fluid, and homeopathy is just a came at the behest of his lordship reveller. So much for the joys of load of woo and which Aaron Kenneth Ward-Atherton free speech! ‘shouldn’t work, therefore cannot (Lord of Witley & Hurcott Worces- After cutting a swathe through work’, blah, blah, blah. So, shame tershire), distinguished medical ho- the protest and the Palace of West- on all those who regularly trumpet meopath and champion for homeo- minster’s tight security, we finally these ignorant shibboleths and pathy, who had skilfully organised got to enjoy the festivities of the were not present at arguably THE and coordinated an event entitled event’s opening day; meeting up most ground-breaking event on the ‘New Horizons in Water Science: with colleagues old and new, ex- science of water (and its implica- Evidence for Homeopathy?’ (see tensive tours of the House of Lords tions for homeopathy) ever to have https://www.thesciencetheevidence. and ‘the Other Place’, followed graced the London scene! co.uk/) by a sumptuous dinner on the ter- Held over two days, beginning ‘Why the question mark?’, you race overlooking the Thames. The with a spectacular official welcome might well ask. Well, there have gathering was addressed by several dinner at the House of Lords, and been a few false dawns in the past luminaries from the Palace of West- the following day (14 July 2018: where seemingly solid scientific minster, but most importantly by mark this date well; the 229th an- evidence for homeopathy has been our host and convener Ken – beg- niversary of the French Revolution) announced, only to disappear later ging your pardon, M’Lord Aaron at 1 Wimpole Street (home of the in a puff of hubris. So, with some Kenneth Ward-Atherton, Lord of Royal Society of Medicine London), trepidation, your correspondents it is just possible the future scenario (LRM suitably bow-tied, tuxxed sketched out above might turn out and with his spouse) approached not to be a fiction after all. So, let’s the Palace of Westminster on the cut to the chase. late afternoon of 13 July … at ex- actly the same time as the massive The conference will About a lucky man who made anti-Trump protest arrived in Par- the grade liament Square. Snaking our way Question: what drew two Nobel through chanting protesters, LRM’s no doubt have sent Laureates, a clutch of internation- wife ruined their future chances of ally renowned scientists, and a ever acquiring a US visa by getting stream of physicians and homeo- herself photographed underneath shockwaves around paths to London on the very day the now-infamous Trump Baby the city decided to show the world balloon. LRM had his painstak- just what it thought of the current ingly tied bow-tie trashed by an the world

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Witley and Hurcott – who de- discoverer, Professor Luc Montag- scribed movingly his own personal nier MD) and some world-class There have been a homeopathic journey – recovery scientists of equal academic stature from MS using intensive complex from the US, UK, Israel and Rus- homeopathy in Germany. Clearly, sia. And what they were saying few false dawns this wasn’t going to be just another was pure, unadulterated scientific half-hearted event, attempting to heresy! For, contrary to what scep- convince a deeply sceptical world tics have been spouting for far too in the past where of homeopathy’s truth: far too long, the latest research in water many internationally renowned science supports the notion that scientific ‘big guns’ had been for- there is a significant difference be- seemingly solid gathered and were getting ready to tween the biological and physical concentrate their fire. And so, next actions of homeopathic medicines day at the 1 Wimpole Street venue and plain water. scientific evidence it was ultimately all too tragically From that point of view, we to prove. should emphasise that this special conference did not seek to re- for homeopathy has And though the news was view the body of existing clinical rather sad research that verifies the efficacy At this point, your correspondents of homeopathic medicines, or the been announced were going to launch into the main basic science studies that show ho- bulk of the article and discuss meopathic medicines have biologi- what the new scientific discoveries cal or physical effects (all subjects about water are. But we pause for ignored totally by the scurrilous a moment to remember the late Dr Wikipedia article on homeopathy). Peter Fisher who, just a few weeks Instead, this conference chose to dilution and succussion – vigor- after the conference, was tragically focus on two far more fundamental ous shaking – of a medicinal sub- cut down by a lorry while cycling questions: stance in water / alcohol) have an to work at the Royal London • Does the process of remedy pro- effect on the water’s long-range Hospital for Integrated Medicine: duction in homeopathy (that is, Dr Peter Fisher structure that is different to that indeed, this conference was one of simple pure water? of his last public engagements. • Are there sound, plausible ex- For not only was he present, but planations for how homeopathic he had been personally invited by medicines persist in water solu- Lord Ken some weeks before to tions despite multiple dilutions? chair the afternoon session, intro- These are important questions as ducing speakers, making sure they many physicians and scientists kept to time. A staunch advocate, are completely unfamiliar with defender, and front-line researcher the fascinating qualities and of homeopathy, Peter will be sorely abilities of water. Therefore, their missed, and we shall return to his assertions on what is and isn’t loss later. possible with homeopathic medi- This ground-breaking event cines represent an embarrass- culminated with seminar organiser, ingly uninformed point of view: Ken Ward-Atherton, chairing the they are at best unscientific; at Q&A session, which was warmly worst, a demonstration of sheer received and facilitated delegates ignorance. The best scientists from several countries having an keep their assertions to a mini- opportunity to fire questions to mum, knowing their knowledge a team of the world’s most elite is always limited: the worst tend scientists. to arrogance, particularly about The conference will no doubt those subjects of which they actu- have sent shockwaves around ally know nothing! the world, as delegates from over 20 countries listened in I just had to laugh; I saw the awe to two Nobel Laureates photograph (physicist emeritus Professor Brian Physicist and Nobel Laureate Josephson and AIDS virus Professor Brian Josephson of

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Cambridge University UK kicked off the proceedings by showing a clip from a lecture the legendary gave at the Cavendish Lab nearly 20 years ago. I remember it because I was there and wrote up Benveniste’s lecture for The Independent. Professor Josephson then echoed remarks he had made to the popular science magazine New Scientist, saying: Simple-minded analysis may suggest that water, being a fluid, cannot have a structure of the kind that such a picture would demand. But cases such as that of liquid crystals which, while flowing like an ordinary fluid, can maintain an ordered structure over macroscopic distances, show the limitations of such ways of think- ing. There have not, to the best of my knowledge, been any refutations of homeopathy that remain valid after this particular point is taken into account. Of course, at the time, nobody took a blind bit of notice; perhaps they wave patterns in water that fol- Professor Brian what is commonly referred to as a will now. low changes in a sound’s pitch. Josephson ‘memory’. Professor Josephson powerfully This video shows dramatically Professor Josephson concluded critiqued generally accepted theories (and for many in the audience, his talk: of how biomolecules react with quite movingly) how the dynamic Such is life. Order arises spontane- their substrates. Conventionally, structure of water changes as ously. Creation of order (order-ing) is these are thought to ‘match’ like a music is played. And for this to a part of nature. Order includes disor- lock and a key, but only when they occur, there has to be an order- der (fluctuations), so order requires are in direct physical contact. Not ing of molecules within the water, order to be present. With crystals, the so, says Professor Josephson. Like to give it that dynamic structure; order is static; with life it is dynamic. his predecessor Professor Jacques There we have ordering within activ- Benveniste (Milgrom, 2001), Jo- ity. Our present understanding of all sephson argued that they can ‘com- this is qualitative and limited, but this municate’ over some distance long must be the next step for science. before they come together, and that such interactions are best described A crowd of people stood and by quantum theory and electromag- stared netic signalling (2015). Next to speak was Professor Vladi- Further, Professor Josephson mir Voeikov from the Lomonosov went on to show some remark- Moscow State University in Russia. ably beautiful photos and videos A world expert on the chemical that provide powerful evidence Conventional ideas and physical properties of aqueous of how hyper-sensitive water is to systems and their key role in vital sound. Using an impressive new living processes, and speaking on technology called cymascopy, and of how water dis- behalf of his colleague Professor Al- developed by acoustics engineer exander Konovalov, Professor Voei- John Stuart Reid, Professor Jo- kov also took aim at critics who sephson was able to demonstrate solves substances scoff at homeopathy’s plausibility. the incredible influence sound He then launched into a description has on water using this technol- of the extensive and highly detailed ogy, producing stunning dynamic is actually incorrect work on the biological effects of

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again is that the process of homeo- pathic dilution and agitation, even down past the Avogadro limit (so that no particles are supposed to still be present), does NOT get rid of all the dissolved substance. In- stead, microscopically tiny ‘clumps’ of the dissolved substance – known as nano-associates – remain behind and these are biologically active. What’s more, these nano-associates can be traced and tracked (using various analytical techniques), and they affect water in many ways that make it different from pure water, for example electrical conductivity, surface tension and so on. So, a so- lution diluted and agitated beyond the Avogadro limit is anything but pure water. If that wasn’t enough, Professor Voeikov told us Konovalov and his colleagues have shown that so- called ordinary solutions – the kind Professor Vladimir that we make up and use every day Voeikov (and have not been sequentially diluted and agitated as homeopaths ultra-high dilutions (or UHDs) a review had been published into do) – also contain nano associates, that (many of us were surprised to the action of UHDs (Stephenson, violating what has for years been learn) has been on-going in Russia 1955). understood as ‘laws of behaviour’ since the 1980s. Drawing on his own and Kono- prescribed in standard textbooks One of the unfortunate side valov’s work, Voeikov concluded on aqueous solutions. So, not effects of the perennial East-West that conventional ideas of how only are all those sceptics and divide and the mistrust it still water dissolves substances is actu- naysayers going to have to get generates, has been access to ally incorrect. So, when something used to and research like this, mainly because dissolves in water, its particles are their effects being real, they will it has appeared only in Russian thought to be randomly distrib- have to completely reassess their journals. Consequently, we had uted throughout the solvent. As understanding of what happens a lot of ground to make up … the solution is continually diluted, when ANY substance is dissolved which Voeikov did in no uncer- these particles simply reduce in in water. For those whose solemn tain terms! And, much to the number until at a certain dilution duty it is to rewrite textbooks, it is audience’s surprise, it turns out (known as the Avogadro limit) they going to be a field day! that Professor Jacques Benveniste are supposed to disappear com- (who in 1988 was so pilloried pletely. Consequently, if a solution They’d seen his face before, by scientists, sceptics and the is diluted beyond this limit, as there nobody was really sure journal Nature, his reputation are apparently no particles left, Barely able to catch our breath, was trashed, he lost his labora- such UHDs cannot possibly exert we were then treated to arguably tories and his funding) was by any effects, let alone on biological the most inspirational talk of the no means the first to suggest that systems, should they! ‘It’s obvious, whole conference, delivered by solutions diluted and strongly isn’t it?’ say the sceptics. ‘There- Jerry Pollack, professor of bioen- agitated to the point where, fore, homeopathy (which some- gineering at Seattle’s University of conventionally, there couldn’t times uses dilutions of substances Washington. possibly be any molecules of the way beyond the Avogadro limit) Professor Pollack is probably original substance left, could still must be complete bunkum …’, and best known for his book, The exert biological effects. Delving on and on they drone. So much for Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond back into the literature, it had conventional thinking! Solid, Liquid, and Vapor (2014) been announced around a century What Konovalov and his col- in which he outlines in highly before Benveniste. And in 1955, leagues have shown time and time readable terms some of his and

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his team’s amazing discoveries desalination system. At the mo- Above left: surfaces it turns out that Professor about water. ment, this last application would Professor Jerry Pollack’s semi-crystalline EZs are Pollack Chiefly, these concern what need to be scaled up before it could able to store electromagnetically happens to water when it is in be of any practical use, but if it Above right: large amounts of information in contact with a surface, for example could then there must surely be a Many physicians their molecular structure. Intrigu- a membrane. And for any doubt- Nobel prize in the offing. and scientists ingly, therefore, what the new ing Thomas out there we should In addition, bearing in mind are completely science presented by Professor Pol- unfamiliar with the point out that Professor Pollack’s that blood is mainly water be- lack and others at this conference fascinating qualities discoveries about water have been ing pumped through tubes of and abilities of is telling us, is that Hahnemann’s independently reproduced many biological membranes, Professor water method seems to optimise the times. It turns out that the water Pollack suggested that the same storage of medicinal information molecules closest to the membrane charge-separating mechanism that within the very structure of water surface form an almost crystalline powered his radiant energy battery, itself. So, even after more than 200 alignment that has the effect of might also assist in powering our years, Hahnemann’s discovery of excluding any dissolved particles blood through narrow vessels far homeopathy and his contributions in the water. These exclusion zones removed from the pumping action to medicine and pharmacology are – or EZs – have properties that of the heart. If so, such a discovery still being uncovered. are totally different from the bulk will have huge ramifications for our water, and whose consequences will understanding of physiology. And Somebody spoke and I went into have profound effects not only on what about homeopathy? a dream our understanding of water, but The founder of homeopathy, After lunch (always a bad time for how we use it. , was both a one’s concentration … especially For example, depending on the physician and the author of a then LRM’s), Professor Luc Montag- nature of the membrane surface, leading textbook for pharmacists. nier MD came to the stage and sat charge separation occurs between His many experiments attempting down. the EZ layer and the bulk water to reduce the harmful side effects He didn’t look a well man, but he phase. Professor Pollack showed of medicinal substances, led him to gamely made it to the conference, us how this phenomenon could a method of dilution and agita- the dinner the night before, and got be used, not only to produce an tion which we homeopaths still ready to speak. It turns out he was incredibly simple battery powered use today. Now, the preparation introduced to homeopathy and ho- only by radiant energy, but how of homeopathic remedies involves meopathic research by the French it could be the basis of a water water solutions in contact with immunologist Jacques Benveniste,

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structures which mimic the original molecules. Hahnemann’s method The Science interview concluded when Montagnier was asked if he is concerned that he is drifting seems to optimise into . He replied adamantly: No, because it’s not pseudoscience. the storage of It’s not quackery. These are real phe- nomena which deserve further study. Montagnier told the conference medicinal informa- that, under the right conditions, electromagnetic signals can be transmitted from test tubes tion within the very containing a highly diluted DNA sample to a different test tube containing only water and that, structure of water when enzymes which copy DNA molecules are then added to this water, they behave as if DNA itself molecules are present, producing new DNA molecules (2009). This ‘teleportation’ effect of the DNA, from one test tube to another Montagnier’s studies found that Volkan Akgul Volkan © was found to occur only when highly diluted DNA from patho- the homeopathic procedure of genic bacterial and viral species is MD. In a remarkable interview sequential dilution, with vigorous able to emit specific radio waves published in Science Magazine of shaking of the test tube was and that ‘these radio waves [are] December 24, 2010, Professor Luc utilised. Also, Montagnier was associated with ‘nanostructures’ Montagnier expressed support for co-author, with several highly in the solution that might be able homeopathic medicine: respected scientists, in another to recreate the pathogen’. A writer What I can say now is that the high article that was published in a for the New Scientist magazine has dilutions (used in homeopathy) are leading scientific journal (2015). asserted that, if his conclusions right. High dilutions of something This article posits quantum are true, these would be the most are not nothing. They are water effects beyond simple chemistry. significant experiments performed in the past 90 years, demanding re- Professor Luc evaluation of the whole conceptual Montagnier framework of modern chemistry’ (Coghlan, 2011).

4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire While Montagnier’s work shows the influence of electromagnetic fields having a biological effect, other researchers at the confer- ence found that nano-doses of the original homeopathic medicine persist in water solutions. Jayesh Bellare of the prestigious India In- stitute of Technology described his seminal research that was published in 2012 in Langmuir, a highly respected journal published by the American Chemistry Society. Bellare and his colleagues found that six different homeopathic medicines, all made from minerals

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(gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc, and So, the take-home message Above left: the many scientific developments ) that were diluted 1:100 from all this research is that, Dr Jayesh Bellare that have occurred in the wake of six times, 30 times, and 200 times however much a material in wa- Jacques Benveniste’s initial discov- Above right: were each found in nano-doses ter is diluted and succussed, it is Dr Rob Verkerk eries since his premature death in from one of three different types never reduced entirely to nothing: 2004, Rob said: of spectroscopy. something always remains and Whatever the opponents of homeopathy Bellare and his team explained that will have effects. Time to argue, the clinical effect has been that homeopathic medicines are suck that up, sceptics! amply demonstrated. Could this new usually made in glass bottles and evidence from the science of water re- the vigorous shaking of the water Now they know how many holes it veal a likely albeit complex mechanism in these bottles releases nano-sized takes to fill the Albert Hall – or possibly more likely – a series of fragments of silica from the glass At this point, many of the homeo- parallel mechanisms? And could an walls, and the substance being paths in the audience could have understanding of these mechanisms made into a medicine is literally been forgiven for thinking that provide the missing piece in the logic pushed into these floating silica their heads were about to explode. pathway required to shift the medical ‘chips’. Then, when 99% of the They were probably not used to establishment’s perception about the water is poured out, the silica chips such a concentrated elixir of science usefulness of homeopathy for human cling to the glass walls. The scien- supporting what they have known or animal health? tists found each of the six minerals for over 200 years. So, when Dr This kind of sea-change is ur- persisting in the water no matter Rob Verkerk from the Alliance of gently needed if we are to avert how many times they diluted the Natural Health International took the extinction of homeopathy in the medicine. When one considers to the stage, it might have come as NHS, the veterinary sciences and that many of the most important some relief. beyond, caused by a lack of appetite hormones and cell-signalling agents His talk was more concerned among some for ‘scientific truth’ – of the body operate at nano-dose with how it might be possible to regardless of its consequences. levels, the nano-doses found in ho- co-create a sustainable system of Given the recent closures and meopathic medicines may explain health provision – that includes threats of closures to homeopathic how these medicines work. CAM therapies like homeopathy, hospitals / departments across the Still further, the fact that nano- alongside more conventional UK, some might have thought this doses are much more able to cross medical approaches – than the warning was perhaps a tad late? the blood-brain barrier, as well as science of water. But his talk But one of your correspondents most cell membranes, provides ad- came with a warning for the noted something similar in an ditional insight into how and why homeopathic community in article written in 2011 (15). And homeopathic nano-doses can elicit the UK. while homeopathy might well have significant and powerful immune Noting that this conference its back to the wall in the UK, Eu- responses from the body. was something of a celebration of rope, and perhaps even the USA,

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there are signs of hope not only corrupted countries have leapt for its survival, but support and However much a ahead and made homeopathy an resurgence even, in other parts of integral part of their healthcare the world. systems. material in water So, just as the Beatles’ success I’d love to turn you on in the 1960s had the effect of, This was underlined by two further in essence, reimporting rock speakers at the conference, Dr is diluted and music back into the USA from the Menachem Oberbaum from Israel, UK, could it be that sometime in and Dr Raj Kumar Manchanda the near future (and in no small from India. succussed, it is never part due to the ground-breaking Both these speakers announced nature of this conference), ho- the recent agreement signed bet- meopathy’s now-global success ween Israel and India to jointly con- reduced entirely to particularly on the Indian sub- duct research into homeopathy. Dr continent will be re-imported Oberbaum founded and heads up back into an impoverished, the Centre of Integrated Medicine nothing: something post-Brexit UK beset by chronic in the Shaare Zedek Medical Center illnesses that conventional drugs in Jerusalem, and his homeopathy can no longer treat? It’s a chas- credentials are impeccable. He was always remains and tening thought … which brings a co-author with Benveniste on the us back to Dr Peter Fisher. now famous 1988 paper in Nature where the memory of water hypoth- that will have effects Epilogue – Dr Peter Fisher RIP esis was first aired. Peter’s sudden, tragic and hugely Dr Manchanda has equally untimely death has shocked us impressive credentials and, as all. And in the weeks and months Director-General of the Central insisted on homeopathy being since his death, one of us (LRM) Council for Research in Homeo- part of the newly independent received a request to write some- pathy (CCRH), he has contrib- state’s healthcare system, when thing about him in memoriam. uted significantly to strengthening asked what he thought of Western There were also requests for homeopathy’s burgeoning infra- civilisation, remarked sarcastically silence worldwide on the day structure within India’s public that it would be a good idea! While Below left: Dr Raj of his memorial service. Kumar Manchanda health system. homeopathy might be languishing While these are absolutely cor- And this is the point. Mahatma in the so-called ‘enlightened’ West, Below right: Dr Men- rect, fine and proper ways to pay Gandhi, the Indian leader who other obviously not-so-sceptically achem Oberbaum our respects to Peter, something has

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been niggling away at me since I science.330.6012.1732. heard of the tragedy; that some- Montagnier J-L, Aissa J, Ferris S, how, we as a community need to This world is sick Lavallee C (2009) ‘Electromagnetic do so much more to honour Peter’s Signals Are Produced by Aqueous memory. This coincided with being Nanostructures Derived from Bacte- shown vile postings on that execra- enough already and rial DNA Sequences’. Interdiscip ble method of so-called communi- Sci Comput Life Sci 1: 81-90: http:// cation, Facebook. I won’t repeat www.springerlink.com/content/ what they said: they were just too it really is time to 0557v31188m3766x/fulltext.pdf. diabolical. Montagnier L, Del Giudice E, On a more positive note, the Aïssa J, Lavallee C, Motschwiller S, memorial tribute Lord Ken Ward- wake up and smell Capolupo A, Polcari A, Romano P, Atherton recorded quite soon after Tedeschi A, and Vitiello G (2015) the sad and tragic news undoubt- ‘Transduction of DNA information edly captures Peter’s irreplaceable the coffee through water and electromagnetic inspirational moments on film, waves’. Electromagnetic Biology especially during his contributions If I am not for myself, who will be for and Medicine, 34:2, 106-112, DOI: at the New Horizons seminar; in me? If I am only for myself, what am I? 10.3109/15368378.2015.1036072 many ways this tribute sums up And if not now, when? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ who Peter was, and what he meant abs/10.3109/15368378.2015.103 to so many involved in homeopathy REFERENCES 6072. around the world (this memorial www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/. Coghlan A (2011) ‘Scorn over claim will be available on the New Milgrom L (1999) ‘The Memory of of teleported DNA’. New Scientist, Horizons website and Facebook Molecules’. The Independent, 19 12 January 2011, issue 2795. pages). March 1999: https://www.inde- Chikramane PS, Kalita D, Suresh You see, when all is said and pendent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/ AK, Kane SG, Bellare JR (2012) done, it is us humans who cre- science-the-memory-of-mole- ‘Why Extreme Dilutions Reach ate meaning in this world: if all cules-1081528.html. Non-zero Asymptotes: A Nanopar- our attempts to understand what Josephson B (1997) ‘Molecule ticulate Hypothesis Based on Froth it is to be conscious have taught Memories’, letter to New Scientist Flotation’. Langmuir. Nov 2012; us anything, surely it is this. So, 1 November 1997, www.tcm.phy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub- under those circumstances, what cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/water.memory/ med/23083226. could be a fitting memorial to ns/homeopathy.html. https://anhinternational.org/event/ Peter? I would posit nothing less Milgrom L (2001) ‘Thanks for the new-horizons-in-water-science- than a galvanised GLOBAL effort Memory’. The Guardian, 15 March evidence-for-homeopathy-seminar- by a united community to fight 2001, https://www.theguardian. the-royal-society-of-medicine/. back and put homeopathy where it com/science/2001/mar/15/technol- Milgrom LR, Ringo MR, Wehrstein belongs: at the forefront of health- ogy2. KM (2012) ‘Emerging economies care worldwide, because THAT in Del Guidice E, Voeikov V, Tedeschi need for cheap, efficient healthcare my view is what Dr Peter Fisher T, and Vitiello G (2015) ‘The origin makes western anti-homeopathy was about. and special role of coherent water rhetoric irrelevant: Observations Peter’s death filled LRM with in living systems’. Fields of the Cell. from the Canadian Homeopathy anger, frustration, and yes, deter- http://www.cymascope.com/. Conference, October 2011’. J Al- mination. Why? Because this Stephenson J (1955) ‘Substances tern Comp Med 18(7):1-7. is precisely what homeopathy’s in dilutions greater than 10-24: A https://www.voices-visions.org/ enemies wish for. This world is review of investigations into their content/poster/collection-poster- sick enough already and it really actions’. J Amer Inst Hom 48:327- rabbi-hillel-pirke-avot-114-daniel- is time to wake up and smell the 335. bennett-schwartz. coffee. Coming as it did, so soon Pollack G (2013) The Fourth Phase after arguably one of the most suc- of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, Extracts of this article have been cessful confirming conferences on and Vapour. Ebner & Sons Publish- published previously on Mercola homeopathy, Peter’s death should ers. (https://www.mercola.com/), 31 remind us that NOW like never Enserink M (2010) ‘Luc Mon- Oct 2018. before, is the time to stand and tagnier, French Nobelist Escapes fight for what we know is right “Intellectual Terror” to Pursue Lionel Milgrom can be contacted and for what we believe in. For, as Radical Ideas in China’. Science, 24 at [email protected]. the ancient Jewish religious leader December 2010: Vol. 330 no. 6012 Dana Ullman can be contacted at Hillel the Elder once said: p. 1732. DOI: 10.1126 / [email protected].

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