13 Things That Don't Make Sense (30 page)

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According to the World Health Organization
:
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
77 (1999): 160.

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Benveniste convinced the journal
Nature:
Nature
333 (1988): 816.

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Nature
published a critique
:
Nature
334 (1988): 291.

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“incredibly surprised
”: L. Milgrom, “Thanks for the Memory,”
Guardian
, March 15, 2001.

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The trial … took place in four different laboratories
:
Inflammation Research
50 (2001): 47.

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a team of scientists failed to replicate
: See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopathy. shtml
.

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she later distanced herself
: See
http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,55
.

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A study by Adrian Guggisberg
:
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
13, no. 2 (2005): 91.

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Dylan Evans attributes . . . the placebo effect
: D. Evans,
Placebo
(London: Harper Collins, 2003), p. 149.

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a 1997 meta-analysis published in the
Lancet:
Lancet
350 (1997): 834.

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Robert L. Park uses the same argument
: R. Park,
Voodoo Science
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 57.

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At least sixty-four
: See
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/
.

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His review article reads like a political address
:
Nature Reviews (Molecular Cell Biology)
7, no. 11 (2006): 861.

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a group of German researchers
:
Angewandte Chemie
(international edition) 40 (2001): 1808.

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it becomes broken up into distinct beads
:
Journal of Chemical Physics
120 (2004): 5867.

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Anders Nilsson published a paper
:
Science
304 (2004): 995.

p. 191

Roy advocates using silver as an antibiotic
:
Materials Research Innovations
11, no. 1 (2007): 3.

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repeatedly separated fools and their money
: The FDA regulation on the subject is at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/10apr20061500/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/aprqtr/pdf/21cfr310.548.pdf
.

p. 192

Its editorial article
:
Lancet
366 (2005): 690.

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an article published in the same issue
: Ibid., p. 726.

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“flawed” study
: Ibid., p. 2081.

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Klaus Linde and Wayne Jonas had published
:
Lancet
350 (1997): 834.

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But then Jonas
:
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
11, no. 5 (2005): 813.

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A six-month study
:
Rheumatology
40 (2001): 1052.

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This dangerous ideal . . . “posthumous ostracism”
: S. Land, “The Two Faces of Homoeopathy,”
British Homoeopathic Journal
, January 1985, p. 49.

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J. Donald Fernie made a wry observation
:
Publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
81 (1969): 707.

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Horgan argued that science is, essentially, finished
: J. Horgan,
The End of Science
(Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley, 1996), p. 1.

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Simon White has, for example, suggested
:
Reports on Progress in Physics
70 (2007): 883.

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The widespread acceptance . . . is unwarranted
: R. Laughlin,
A Different Universe
(New York: Basic Books, 2005), p. 211.

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very young or very new
: T. Kuhn,
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 151.

p. 210

“Who are we?”
: E. Schrödinger,
Science and Humanism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951).