"High-dilution" experiments a delusion
@article{Maddox1988HighdilutionEA,
title={"High-dilution" experiments a delusion},
author={John Royden Maddox and James Randi and Walter W. Stewart},
journal={Nature},
year={1988},
volume={334},
pages={287-290}
}The now celebrated report by Dr J. Benveniste and colleagues elsewhere is found, by a visiting Nature team, to be an insubstantial basis for the claims made for them.
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