John Maddox, then editor of Nature, published the results even though he was skeptical of their validity, because the paper had survived peer review. But, in keeping with the history of his prestigious journal, he went to inspect the experimental procedure for himself. He took along Walter Stewart of the National Institutes of Health, who was an investigator of scientific fraud, and noted skeptic and magician James Randi. Like Wood before them, they published their findings in a follow-up article in Nature, detailing a number of failings of Benveniste’s lab.
