Jacques Benveniste [pictured here] was the first person (but not the last!) to be awarded more than one Ig Nobel Prize. John Welford the renowned “professional librarian, now semi-retired, who writes articles based on material gleaned from obscure books and journals,” crafted a profile of Benveniste. Here are some highlights: “… Having – as he thought – […]
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A further delay in the arrival of a universal drug creation machine
The new great attempt to make a machine that can conveniently make and deliver any —any — kind of drug has hit a snag. The previous great attempt, by two-time Ig Nobel Prize winner Jacques Benveniste, hit a snag two decades ago, and never got unsnagged. The Retraction Watch blog sums up the new case: Paper claiming […]
All wet: Benveniste explains it to you
In this video, Jacques Benveniste, the first person to be awarded more than one Ig Nobel Prize, explains his technology. His first Ig, in 1991, was for his persistent discovery that water, H2O, is an intelligent liquid, and for demonstrating to his satisfaction that water is able to remember events long after all trace of […]