I have to apologise to meow. I thought you were referring to the Benveniste study when you were actually referring to the Ennis one. A lot of my comments in this thread (like "deeply flawed") referred to the Benveniste study, even after you had referred to the Ennis one. I had not made the distinction between the two.
Meow, since you appear to be a supporter of homeopathy, can you tell me if there is any way that a properly-prepared homeopathic remedy can be distinguished from a non-homeopathic substance such as water or improperly prepared homeopathy?
i support the theory that water has a memory of some sort. --or is able to capture the solute and store it. some frequency or energy resonates within the solution even after the original solute has been diluted far out of existence.
there are many studies that support this. see below
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15594862
Here we thus show that successive dilutions and succussions can permanently alter the physico-chemical properties of the water solvent. The nature of the phenomena here described still remains unexplained, nevertheless some significant experimental results were obtained.
Revue / Journal Title
Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry ISSN 1388-6150
i believe a properly prepared ultra dilute lithium solution can easily be identified from a control using thermoluminescense.... see below
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=0dd37a60a935ce27e1ac6ccc41b2ef1c
Ultra-high dilutions of lithium chloride and sodium chloride (10−30 gcm−3) have been irradiated by X- and γ-rays at 77 K, then progressively rewarmed to room temperature. During that phase, their thermoluminescence has been studied and it was found that, despite their dilution beyond the Avogadro number, the emitted light was specific of the original salts dissolved initially.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3817
Aware of homeopaths' claims that patterns of hydrogen bonds can survive successive dilutions, Rey decided to test samples that had been diluted down to a notional 10-30 grams per cubic centimetre - way beyond the point when any ions of the original substance could remain. "We thought it would be of interest to challenge the theory," he says.
Each dilution was made according to a strict protocol, and vigorously stirred at each stage, as homeopaths do. When Rey compared the ultra-dilute lithium and sodium chloride solutions with pure water that had been through the same process, the difference in their thermoluminescence peaks compared with pure water was still there (see graph).
"Much to our surprise, the thermoluminescence glows of the three systems were substantially different," he says. He believes the result proves that the networks of hydrogen bonds in the samples were different.
