DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields (2011)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThis is 100% snake oil bullshit, right up there with anti-vaxxers and 5G conspiracy theories.
Even if true that DNA behaves as a "fractal antenna", which this paper does not establish in any way, the scales are all wrong.
The paper itself contains this little table of fractal sizes:
DNA level Diameter
Double helix 1 nm
Chromatin fiber 10 nm
Solenoid 30 nm
Hollow tube 200 nm
DNA level Diameter Frequency Type
Double helix 1 nm 300,000 THz Soft X-Ray
Chromatin fiber 10 nm 30,000 THz Extreme Ultraviolet
Solenoid 30 nm 10,000 THz Far Ultraviolet
Hollow tube 200 nm 1,500 THz Ultraviolet
The conclusion -- of course -- is that WiFi which uses 2.4 to 6 GHz is dangerous:
> The proliferation of mobile phones, WiFi (wireless communication technology), etc. could lead to a large increase in mutations over a very short period of time.
This isn't even remotely science. It's a bunch of quacks that got their garbage published in PubMed, which is a low bar. There's nothing to see here until it turns up in Nature, and is replicated.
Read the paper for yourselves: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.3109/09553002.2011.538...
[1] I've ignored the index of refraction of water, because it's a small, largely irrelevant difference. We're talking orders of magnitude here, and the paper is off by about 15 of them!
I agree about 5g but being against the new vaccines makes a lot of sense. Lots of evidence to support the serious side effects. People are adviced to not exercise after taking the vaccine due to deadly blood clots forming.
I'm talking about the "general purpose" anti-vaxxers that were around before COVID and are responsible for hundreds of children dead around the world from preventable diseases like measles.
But COVID vaccines are also much safer than the disease they prevent.
Here in Australia is a perfect example of vaccine hesitancy versus hard reality.
For months on end we had close to zero cases in most states, people could do pretty much whatever with minimal restrictions. Every once in a while some returning traveller would cause a small outbreak, a few people might wind up in hospital, but we had zero cases on intubators, and zero deaths for ages.
There were protests in the street against COVID vaccines, which aren't mandatory here, and still aren't available for half the population. I have two acquaintances and a close relative that are refusing vaccination. The relative in particular is in an extremely high-risk category for serious COVID complications but is still unprotected.
Their logic was this: something like 3 people have died from the vaccines, and 0 from COVID. Hence, the vaccine is clearly much more dangerous than COVID.
We now have a relatively tiny(!) outbreak of just over a thousand cases that has sent three states into lockdowns, and a stage-4 lockdown of our most populous city.
These mere 1,100 cases have already killed 3 people, but those 3 vaccine deaths were from 10 million doses!
So the anti-vaxxer logic is: We prefer never-ending ruinous lockdowns and 10,000x more deaths because taking personal action is too scary if it has any risk of death associated with it. In other words, they got a headache when they heard about the Trolley Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
PS: All three of those people drive like maniacs.
The consequence of this would be heating, which is how radiation safety is already established. I'd be curious to see how the absorption of EM into DNA differs from other tissue (or I guess molecules) more than the specific observation that it can absorb EM over a broad band. That's all "fractal antenna" really means in this context (broadband absorbtion and therefore potential for heating), it is not some special feature
I remember many years ago there was a bit of a fractal craze, in signal processing and antenna design. The idea for antennas was that self similarity gave a broad resonance because there was always some fractal element that was the right size. In practice I never saw any indications they were better than other antennas.
I'd be much more concerned if DNA had a resonance somewhere in common radio bands where it absorbed a lot of EM, that would be much more likely to be dangerous.
I'm glad some actual reaearch has been done on this.
Reminds me a bit of the far-fetched claim by mystic pseudo-scientist David Wilcock that biological viruses could be transmitted via EMFs.
Yes, a fractal antenna in a bag of salt water. Good luck getting more than 2 or 3 bars with that. :-P