Editing Water memory (section)

===Publication in ''Nature'' ===
Benveniste submitted his research to the prominent [[science journal]] ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' for publication. There was concern on the part of ''Nature's'' editorial oversight board that the material, if published, would lend credibility to homeopathic practitioners even if the effects were not replicable.<ref name="time" /> There was equal concern that the research was simply wrong, given the changes that it would demand of the known laws of physics and chemistry. The editor of ''Nature'', [[John Maddox]], stated that, "Our minds were not so much closed as unready to change our whole view of how science is constructed."<ref name="time" /> Rejecting the paper on any objective grounds was deemed unsupportable, as there were no methodological flaws apparent at the time.

In the end, a compromise was reached. The paper was published in ''Nature'' Vol. 333 on 30 June 1988,<ref name="benveniste" /> but it was accompanied with an editorial by Maddox that noted "There are good and particular reasons why prudent people should, for the time being, suspend judgement" and described some of the fundamental laws of chemistry and physics which it would violate, if shown to be true.<ref name=NatureEditorial /> Additionally, Maddox demanded that the experiments be re-run under the supervision of a hand-picked group of what became known as "ghostbusters", including Maddox, famed magician and paranormal researcher [[James Randi]], and [[Walter W. Stewart (chemist)|Walter W. Stewart]], a chemist and freelance [[debunker]] at the [[U.S. National Institutes of Health]].<ref>{{citation |title= E-mailed Antigens and Iridium's Iridescence |others= column "Psychic Vibrations" |author= Robert Sheaffer |volume= 22 |issue= 1 |date= January–February 1998 |work= [[Skeptical Inquirer]] |url= http://www.csicop.org/si/show/e-mailed_antigens_and_iridiumrsquos_iridescence/ |author-link= Robert Sheaffer }}</ref>