Editing Water memory (section)

== Homeopathic coverage ==
To most scientists, the "memory of water" is not something that deserves serious consideration; the only evidence is the flawed Benveniste work. By contrast, the notion of "memory of water" has been taken seriously among [[homeopathy|homeopaths]]. For them, it seemed to explain how some of their remedies might work. 
An overview of the issues surrounding the memory of water was the subject of a special issue of ''Homeopathy.'' In an editorial, the editor of ''Homeopathy'', [[Peter Fisher (physician)|Peter Fisher]], acknowledged that Benveniste's original method does not yield reproducible results and declared  "...the memory of water is a bad memory: it casts a long shadow over homeopathy and is just about all that many scientists recall about the scientific investigation of homeopathy, equating it with poor or even fraudulent science."  The issue was an attempt to restore some credibility to the notion with articles proposing various, very different theories of water memory, such as electromagnetic exchange of information between molecules, breaking of [[symmetry (physics)#Spacetime|temporal symmetry]], [[thermoluminescence]], [[Quantum entanglement|entanglement]] described by a new quantum theory, formation of [[hydrogen peroxide]], [[clathrate]] formation, etc. Some of the proposed mechanisms would require overthrowing much of 20th-century physics.<ref name="Homeopathy2007">{{citation
 | editor = Martin Chaplin
 | date = 2007
 | title = The Memory of Water ''Homeopathy'' 96:141-230}} 
::Copies of the articles in this special issue are freely available on a private website, along with discussion. [http://www.badscience.net/?p=490 Homeopathy Journal Club] hosted by Bad Science, a blog by Ben Goldacre</ref>