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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Magnetism is always blamed as the factor causing these negative health effects

    Better get rid of all loudspeakers then.
    Even a stupid lightbulb has a magnetic field that influence you more than a solar flare.

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

    Probably to dupe the gullible and uninformed with technical terms.
    These people are probably either con-men or mentally ill.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances

    Schumann resonances are the principal background in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum[2] from 3 Hz through 60 Hz

    These frequenceies are very close to many other everyday phenomena, occurring in music (loudspeakers) and light-bulbs as previously mentioned.

    https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23334-pineal-gland

    secretes the hormone melatonin. Your pineal gland’s main job is to help control the circadian cycle of sleep and wakefulness by secreting melatonin.

    So why is the main function of the gland unaffected? Also there is very little reason to believe these alleged “crystals” would be magnetic.

    It consists of small crystals that are less than 20 µm in length

    20 µm is very small, and from the above link about Schumann resonance:

    These correspond to wavelengths of 38000, 21000, 14000, 11000 and 9000 km.

    So the affected parts in the body are in µm but the magnetic waves are in kilometers!. There is NO WAY these 2 can resonate together, simply NADA possibility. There is a factor of 1 billion distance between them being able to resonate!