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Article: Research Called `Shoddy' By Publisher of Article; Probe Rebuts Claim Defying Scientific Laws
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- The Washington Post
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- July 27, 1988
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A scientific journal that last month published a research report
it said was "unbelievable" yesterday announced that an investigation
determined the research for the article was "shoddy" and branded the
findings "a delusion."
The original report, published in the British journal Nature,
claimed that a solution remained chemically active even after it was
so heavily diluted that not one molecule of the original chemical
remained in the sample tested.
The article's claims had been embraced by believers in
homeopathic medicine, which holds that infinitesimal doses of
chemicals can cure diseases.
The Nature investigation-which included a visit to the Paris
laboratory that conducted the ...