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Dr Richard Kay is a Senior Registrar in Clinical Immunology at St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester.
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From the archives: Is there antibody there? Jaques Benveniste and the memory of water
Richard Kay
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4th September 1988
From the archives in 1988, Richard Kay on the remarkable experiments of Jaques Benveniste, the Nobel prize winner who claimed to prove water has memory
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