---- This year, 1999, the prizes go to: Category #1 The scientist who said or did the silliest thing related to the supernatural, paranormal or occult: goes to Dr. Jacques Benveniste, for his insistence that the magical qualities of homeopathic medicines can be transmitted via the Internet in digital form, transferring curative qualities from a bottle of homeopathic water located in Paris, France, to a bottle of quite ordinary water located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For this amazing discovery, Dr. Benveniste also became the only individual to have received the Ig Nobel Prize awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research, twice! Surely French pseudoscience can take pride in this distinction. (The JREF has offered its one-million-dollar prize to any homeopath who can distinguish between homeopathic and non-homeopathic water.) Reference: http://www.digibio.com --- I suoi lavori originali sono stati replicati oramai infinite volte, purtroppo SEMPRE con esito negativo. Ma questo evidentemente non gli ha fatto perdere la fede. -- Gianni Comoretto Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri gcomoretto_at_arcetri.astro.it Largo E. Fermi 5 http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~comore 50125 Firenze - ITALYReceived on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 00:00:00 CEST
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