Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013)(blog.mycology.cornell.edu)
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Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013)
https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2013/01/20/zap-lightning-gods-and-mushrooms/
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I've tried to find research on the effects of non-ionizing EM radiation on things like the nervous system, and found only very limited results (but I am not an academic biologist and maybe didn't look in the right places).
I always assumed that people were afraid to touch the topic lest they be associated with the "cellphones are dangerous!!!" crowd.
Or (more likely but more boring) people tried it and got a lot of negative "unpublishable" results.
But what if it's a decades-long Cold War conspiracy? That'd make for a fun miniseries.
I always assumed that people were afraid to touch the topic lest they be associated with the "cellphones are dangerous!!!" crowd.
Or (more likely but more boring) people tried it and got a lot of negative "unpublishable" results.
But what if it's a decades-long Cold War conspiracy? That'd make for a fun miniseries.
It mostly comes out sordid: blighted careers, denied tenure; and tragic, fundamental advances in understanding pinched off. It would need very talented direction.
Over the decades we have heard of a variety of dental discoveries never followed up -- vaccine against tooth decay, stimulated regeneration of whole teeth. It all may need to wait for a generation not gated by the ADA.
Over the decades we have heard of a variety of dental discoveries never followed up -- vaccine against tooth decay, stimulated regeneration of whole teeth. It all may need to wait for a generation not gated by the ADA.
Is RTMS a related process or is that in a separate category.I participated in an study that attempted to treat TBI using rtms.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2993526/
For many decades it was effectively forbidden to publish anything about effects of electric fields and currents on living systems, on pain of losing access to grants and lab space. Becker had a unique arrangement with the US Veterans' Administration to study limb regeneration, and was able to sidestep the restrictions. It was sort of permitted in veterinary medicine, too, so that e.g. racehorses could get bone fracture healing acceleration.
In 1987 I attended a talk by an American researcher presenting in Szeged, Hungary, results growing beetle larvae 4x larger than normal through electromagnetic stimulation. She couldn't present at American conferences.
I never figured out, exactly, who enforced the restriction, or how, but got the impression it was connected in some way with protecting power distribution system and/or broadcast operators from liability.
So for all this time, the only effect that was allowed to be acknowledged was heating, microwave-oven style.