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Originally posted by Aurel
No beepbeep, not only in America. These experiments from Tom Bearden have been reproduced in France by Jean-Louis Naudin http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/meg.htm, and there is also a US patent which is no bull$hit !
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I wouldn't consider the USPTO any sort of "gold standard" concerning the validity of scientific research. There are plenty of patents granted for absolute BS (ask any patent attorney). Unfortunately, neither is publication in a refereed journal, nor is single replication. Anyone that read the "water memory" paper in Nature years back can tell you that.
Scientists are sceptical by training, and for good reason. It is very easy for experimenters to make mistakes and introduce artifacts. Things are not accepted unless a number of people are able to replicate the results. This stuff looks interesting, but feels cold fusion-esque to me. I'm not a Ph.D. physicist (but rather chemist, and biological at that), so I'm not going to offer a theoretical debunking of the work, but merely point out that singular replication and a patent are not proof.
Then again, no theory can be proven, only disproven...ahh science!