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Jacques Benveniste
French immunologist Jacques Benveniste (March 12, 1935 - October 3, 2004) gained international notoriety in 1988 when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature that claimed to have found valid evidence for homeopathy. Sparking what became known as the Benveniste Affair, it announced that a homeopathically diluted solution of antibodies could activate white blood cells without relying on a chemical reaction, via a proposed mechanism a journalist (not Benveniste) called water memory.
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