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Lionel Milgrom

Lionel Milgrom

British chemist and homeopath

Lionel R. Milgrom is a British chemist and homeopath who has been accused of being a proponent of pseudoscience.[1] He is a former faculty member at Imperial College London,[2] and a former senior lecturer in inorganic chemistry at Brunel University.[3] He worked as a chemist with expertise in porphyrins for more than twenty years,[4] after which he trained in homeopathy because he was impressed at how effective homeopathy appeared to be for treating his partner's pneumonia.[2] Milgrom is also the founder of the company PhotoBiotics, a spinoff from Imperial College London, which pioneers a form of light-activated targeted cancer therapy.[5][6] He has claimed that quantum entanglement explains how homeopathy works, a claim that has been criticized as "patent nonsense" by Chad Orzel.[7] He has criticized those who criticize homeopathy as "new fundamentalists" and accused them of "demean[ing] science".[8]

References

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    "Why homoeopathy is pseudoscience=SpringerLink". Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  2. [2]
    Brooks, Michael (2010). 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. Profile Books. pp. 194.
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    Smith, Richard A. (April 1998). "The Colours of Life: An Introduction to the Chemistry of Porphyrins and Related Compounds (Milgrom, Lionel R.)". Journal of Chemical Education. 75 (4): 420. Bibcode:1998JChEd..75Q.420S. doi:10.1021/ed075p420.1.
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    "Why grass is green". Times Higher Education. 2 January 1998. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
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    "UK spin out wins new ventures competition for light activated cancer therapies". Times Higher Education. 4 October 2002. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
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    Brahic, Catherine (7 June 2004). "Britain Fosters Bioincubators". The Scientist. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  7. [7]
    Orzel, Chad (2010). How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. Simon and Schuster. pp. 222–223. ISBN 9781416572299.
  8. [8]
    "Homoeopaths label scientists the 'new fundamentalists'". Times Higher Education. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
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