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A few days ago, I watched this short documentary, part of it covered Heliobiology, which the documentary said is an emerging field of science that began in Russia.

The Heliobiologists claimed that magnetic storms caused by solar flares cause all kinds of health problems in humans. Literally every health problem is named, from suicides, to heart attacks, to even terrorist attacks.

After Googling this and looking at some papers, I noticed a few things.

  • The papers find correlations between magnetic storms and some kind of negative health effect, and go on to heavily imply or say that negative health effect is caused by the magnetic storms.

  • Magnetism is always blamed as the factor causing these negative health effects (not radiation), but the papers don't go into detail. I saw one saying that since blood is magnetic, magnetic storms can cause heart attacks by disrupting blood flow.

  • Most of the papers I read on this mention "Schumann resonances", and sometimes "pineal gland" crystals.

  • Most of the papers are brand new, within the last few years.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Based on the post title I was expecting to say "no," but that's because I was also expecting "heliobiology" to be about sentient plasma eddies or something, not woo-woo magnetic bullshit somehow affecting humans.

No, seriously, even life inside stars is less implausible than the nonsense you're asking about: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-argue-that-life-based-on-cosmic-strings-may-be-possible-inside-stars