Jacques Benveniste

Yeah, I know the one.

Jacques Benveniste's memory of water circus.

French immunologist, not Japanese, but close enough.

1988 paper in Nature claimed delusion about investigator.

One of Randi's most famous cases as an investigator was the so-called Benveniste affair.

In 1988, French immunologist Jacques Benveniste published a paper in Nature, one of the most prestigious science journals in the world, where he presented his idea of memory of water, which by and large supported the concept of homeopathy.

This suggestion was immediately met with raised eyebrows from the scientific community, so an independent committee was sent to verify Benveniste's results.

The committee consisted of a fraud investigator, Walter Stewart, Nature editor John Maddox, and James Randi.