A survey of evidence for the ‘memory’ of liquid water casts little light on its putative role in homeopathy, says Philip Ball.

I suspect it will be news to most scientists that Elsevier publishes a peer-reviewed journal called Homeopathy. I also suspect that many, on discovering this, would doubt there is anything published there that it would profit them to read. But I propose that such prejudices be put aside for the current special issue, which collects a dozen papers devoted to the ‘memory of water’. It’s worth seeing what they have to say — if only because that reveals this alleged phenomenon to be as elusive as ever.

Read Phil’s column here.

A survey of evidence for the ‘memory’ of liquid water casts little light on its putative role in homeopathy, says Philip Ball.

I suspect it will be news to most scientists that Elsevier publishes a peer-reviewed journal called Homeopathy. I also suspect that many, on discovering this, would doubt there is anything published there that it would profit them to read. But I propose that such prejudices be put aside for the current special issue, which collects a dozen papers devoted to the ‘memory of water’. It’s worth seeing what they have to say — if only because that reveals this alleged phenomenon to be as elusive as ever.

Read Phil’s column here.