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Their experiment has a serious flaw: live brains have active temperature regulation and wouldn't see these large temperature rises. Put that dead cow brain out
by pulvinar 5y ago
Their experiment has a serious flaw: live brains have active temperature regulation and wouldn't see these large temperature rises. Put that dead cow brain out in the sun and its temperature would rise too. But that solar radiation isn't causing brain cancer in cows out in fields.
- oliv__ 5y agoThere seem to be differences between natural and man-made electromagnetic fields when it comes to biological activity: Polarization: A Key Difference between Man-made and Natural Electromagnetic Fields, in regard to Biological Activity [0] [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14914 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14914
- adamredwoods 5y agoI'm not sure what that paper is trying to prove by killing E Coli with polarized 50Ghz, as we humans use all kinds of EM waves to our advantage already. We use ultraviolet radiation (750 THz range) to kill germs: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/uv-lights-and-lamps-ultraviolet-c-radiation-disinfection-and-coronavirus https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and... Or lower RF (40Mhz) to transfer heat and kill germs in foods: https://www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-magazine/issues/2016/august/columns/processing-radio-frequency-processing-of-food https://www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-ma...
- criticaltinker 5y agoThis is a good point that was acknowledged in the study and by other commenters here. However don’t you think comparing with the sun is a slippery analogy? Specifically when discussing the health effects of duration of exposure, beam shape, pulse pattern, etc?