1988 HOMEOPATHY ‘PROOF’ IS STILL CHALLENGED BY SCIENTISTS
August 1st, 2007
BY MARK ROWE
FOR supporters of homeopathy, 1988 was an important year. Until then, homeopathy had been regarded as the preserve quacks. Afterwards, many scientists still dismissed it as the realm of quacks, but admitted they now had to think twice before doing so. So what brought homeopathy in from the outer solar system of medicine to a fringe treatment? The transformation was due to Jacques Benveniste, an immunologist based at INSERM, the French national medical research institute.
In 1988 Benveniste published a paper in the scientific journal Nature, which ...
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