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I was recently alerted by Bob Park\u2019s rather great What\u2019s New<\/a><\/em> email about an extraordinary new company in the US called Nativis.They have a swish new web site<\/a> that proclaims \u201cThe New Era of Drug Signal Therapy\u201d.<\/p>\n Nativis state they are developing a range of new medical products with the\u00a0 first being called Digitax\u2122 which is aimed at \u201creducing and eliminating brain tumors\u201d.<\/p>\n Exciting stuff.<\/p>\n And what makes this look so promising is that they claim their technology is \u201cbased on the pioneering work of several Nobel laureates.\u201d Nativis also proudly assert they are \u2018Green Pharma\u201d where they \u201cEliminat[e] the need for traditional manufacturing facilities, extensive use of chemicals and processes, Nativis will be the first true green pharma company.\u201d For a startup and their investors, it could not get much better.<\/p>\n But dig a little deeper and thing quickly begin to look very odd.<\/p>\n In their Technology section<\/a>, they explain the science of \u201cDrug Signals \u2013 the power of photons\u201d.<\/p>\n The first sentence set huge alarm bells ringing \u2013 Their technology \u201ccaptures the unique photon field (signal) of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), or drugs\u201d.<\/p>\n Just what could this \u2018photon field\u2019 be and how could it be \u2018captured\u2019? This is beginning to look like classic pseudoscience.<\/p>\n A bit more detail,<\/p>\n Every drug molecule in a solution is surrounded by a photon field that contains information unique to the molecule. With Nativis\u2019 technology, the photon field, or \u201cdrug signal\u201d can be recorded and then replicated for medical treatment.<\/p>\n Nativis has proven in preliminary trials that the drug signal \u2013 or photonic signature \u2013 mimics the original chemical molecule and can unlock the same biological processes as the original to treat diseases, such as brain tumors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It is simple unphysical nonsense. Words from physics, put into sentences, without meaning.<\/p>\n Their technology confirms it.<\/p>\n In order to capture the photons of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), Nativis developed a proprietary, state-of-the art platform for capturing the photon field using the latest advancement in superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) technology, known as Molecular Interrogation and Data Systems\u2122 (MIDS).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A SQUID is a device for measuring very small magnetic fields. They do not \u2018capture photon fields\u2019. The web reveals no insight into what a MIDS might be.<\/p>\n How do they say the treatment actually works?<\/p>\n Captured photons are then imprinted into Coherence Domains in dipole (water-based) solution for delivery to patients; following administration, the photon payload chemically activates a non-water molecule for therapeutic effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Clues are now starting to form. So, water is being used as the \u2018drug\u2019 with some sort of imprinted memory of a real drug. Yes, it is a techno-babble derivative of homeopathy. Indeed, \u201cCoherence Domain\u201d is one of those bits of jargon that\u00a0 a few homeopaths have appropriated to give their ideas of the \u2018memory of water\u2019 the veneer of scientific language.<\/p>\n If anything Nativis were claiming was real, you would expect there to be an explosion of papers published, and the world buzzing with groundbreaking discoveries. But nothing. There are just a number of patents \u2013 and I will come on to those.<\/p>\n But what of the Nobel Prize winning discoveries that appear to underpin the technology?<\/p>\n The Nativis web site goes on to explain that Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is the underpinning breakthrough. The work of Dirac, Schr\u00f6dinger and Feynman describing how photons interact with matter has led to their breakthroughs and that \u201cNativis may be the first to successfully apply QED theory to medicine by converting photons, or light, to biological action.\u201d<\/p>\n The physicist in me is crying.<\/p>\n They have a nice video section showing numerous lectures from Richard Feynman as if his talks have anything to do with their new alleged therapies.<\/p>\n Now, what is curious, is that if Nativis wish to associate themselves with the work of Nobel prize winners in order to give their claims an imprimatur, then there is one Prize winner they have obviously missed.<\/p>\n I recently wrote<\/a> about the bizarre behaviour and claims of Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier, the controversial biologist who shared a prize for his role in the discovery of HIV. His self-published paper<\/a> was making strange claims of being able to capture the electromagnetic field from \u2018aqueous nanostructures\u2019 created by bacterial DNA.<\/p>\n The claims of Montagnier and Nativis bear some striking similarities. Firstly, and importantly, water is able to create stable structures that can somehow transmit specific signals related to whatever caused the structures to form. Leaving aside that any structure created in water would not last more than a few picoseconds due to thermal activity, the idea that specific signals, in the form of photons, could be transmitted is ludicrous.<\/p>\n But where the similarities get a little spooky is in the patents held by both Montagnier and the founders of Nativis. Montagnier shows his breakthrough device as follows:<\/p>\n And the Nativis patents, show a claimed invention<\/a> as such: Both patents are describing a coil, attached to an amplifier that feeds a signal into a computer. As simple as that. As a said in my Montagnier post, the device is almost certainly just picking up radio noise.<\/p>\n This looks as if it is unlikely to be a coincidence.<\/p>\n So, I look at the management of the company and I find that the founder is a John Butters whose brief biography states that he worked \u201cat the French government research labs INSERM in Clamart\u201d where he was introduced \u201cto molecular signalling research\u201d.<\/p>\n So, we have the French Connection.<\/p>\n Now, whilst Montagnier made his HIV discoveries a the Pasteur Institute, his codiscoverer, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, worked<\/a> at INSERM. Its close, but not quite a smoking gun.<\/p>\n The link that joins everyone together here with INSERM is none other that the late Jacques Benveniste, famous for his homeopathic water memory experiments that could not be repeated under controlled conditions. Benveniste did his homeopathic basophil degranulation experiments at INSERM \u2013 the experiments that Nature<\/em> sent a team in to investigate and found badly controlled procedures.<\/p>\n After Benveniste\u2019s failure, he went on to try to show that homeopathic signals could be transmitted over a telephone line.<\/p>\n His patent diagram<\/a> looks like this:<\/p>\n Montagnier stated that he was a colleague of Benveniste at a recent tribute event<\/a>. It would appear that all three men, Butters, Montagnier and Benveniste were co-located and almost certainly were aware of each others work.<\/p>\n It is then curious as to why Nativis are not using a Nobel Prize winner with a direct connection to their claims to promote their work. One insight might come from a fourth patent<\/a> from Bruno Robert who also worked with Benveniste. Robert\u2019s patent on the \u201canalysis of low-frequency electromagnetic signals\u201d was contested<\/a> by Montagnier in court. 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