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Como é habitual, eis um texto de Robert Park, o físico autor da coluna electrónica "What's New" onde desmascara todo o tipo de pseudociência (na imagem Jacques Benveniste, o autor da "memória da água"):"NATIVIS INC.: HAUNTED BY THE GHOST OF JACQUES BENVENISTE.A start-up in La Jolla expects to transform the way medicine is delivered. The company says it’s based on the work of several Nobel physicists including Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman. A video of Feynman giving a talk on QED is posted on its website. Based on QED, Nativis claims pharmaceuticals have electromagnetic signatures that convey the same effect as the drug itself. It's homeopathy done backwards. Homeopathy starts with medicine and dilutes it sequentially until it’s just water. Nativis, by contrast, starts with pure water and exposes it to very low frequency electromagnetic radiation, which of course does nothing at all to the water. However, Nativis is convinced that the ordinary water would now behave like medicine. This is lunacy, and not even original lunacy. In 1988 Jacques Beneveniste, a French biochemist, convinced himself that water can be made homeopathic by exposing it to low-frequency electromagnetic waves. I challenged him publicly in the May 17, 1999 issue of Time magazine to an Intercontinental test involving an exchange of samples. Benveniste agreed but said he needed a little time. Weeks grew into months. Months into Years. He died five years later without completing the test. I think I know why. Homeopathists, see ordinary water and convince themselves it’s magic water. Nativis must do the same."Robert Park