I look for rebates when shopping for the office. Look, if I buy a $1000 item, then I pay the $1000 + sales tax, my employer reimburses me for the whole amount, and then I send for the $400 rebate which I get to pocket in toto. The fact that sales tax is charged on the whole $1000 is not a problem for me, and not for my employer either, since it is wholly deductible against tax collected for the products/services she sells.
The "horizon report" has absolutely nothing to do with the Ennis histamine experiment.
... except that it was an unsuccessful attempt to reproduce Ennis' result, with the difference that the experimentors were not allowed to know which tubes contained the histamine dilute, and which contained ordinary water. True, the effect described by Ennis' is not thereby explained, but the mystery is no longer how "water memory" is possible. The remaining question is just how the experimentor's knowledge of which solution is which could influence the outcome of the experiment. This may be worth investigating, but it hardly qualifies for the top-13 list of unexplained phenomena.
As noted earlier, this article is from March, making it a mystery why it is presented as a "year-end list". Apart from that, it boggles the mind how New Scientist could include the Ennis "Belfast" experiment on the list of unsolved mysteries, without even mentioning the "Horizon" experiment that thoroughly debunked it several years ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopat hy.shtml
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I look for rebates when shopping for the office. Look, if I buy a $1000 item, then I pay the $1000 + sales tax, my employer reimburses me for the whole amount, and then I send for the $400 rebate which I get to pocket in toto. The fact that sales tax is charged on the whole $1000 is not a problem for me, and not for my employer either, since it is wholly deductible against tax collected for the products/services she sells.
The "horizon report" has absolutely nothing to do with the Ennis histamine experiment.
... except that it was an unsuccessful attempt to reproduce Ennis' result, with the difference that the experimentors were not allowed to know which tubes contained the histamine dilute, and which contained ordinary water. True, the effect described by Ennis' is not thereby explained, but the mystery is no longer how "water memory" is possible. The remaining question is just how the experimentor's knowledge of which solution is which could influence the outcome of the experiment. This may be worth investigating, but it hardly qualifies for the top-13 list of unexplained phenomena.
As noted earlier, this article is from March, making it a mystery why it is presented as a "year-end list". Apart from that, it boggles the mind how New Scientist could include the Ennis "Belfast" experiment on the list of unsolved mysteries, without even mentioning the "Horizon" experiment that thoroughly debunked it several years ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopat hy.shtml