The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but that doesn't mean every form of life finds the conditions inhospitable.
  • Denixen@feddit.nuEnglish
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    4 months ago

    According to the article there exists no evidence that it actually synthesis energy from the radiation. The title is a flat out lie. It is a hypothesis with zero evidence.

    Also, it claims melanin that makes it dark, like our skin, is part of the synthesis, but an easier explanation is that it is there to protect against radiation, just like how melanin in our skin protects us from solar radiation.

    The whole idea of “radio-synthesis” is pseudoscientific bullshit with nothing to back it up.

    • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      it’s a hypothesis… making hypotheses and verifying them is how science progresses. you can’t dismiss every single unproven hypotheses as pseudoscience. that is in fact, unscientific.

      on the other hand, i am tired of media sensationalising as well…

      • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        The bigger problem here is that the paper is stating an (as of currently) unsupported hypothesis as a definitive fact

  • iocase@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    can we stop using the word quietly!? I am so quietly sick of hearing the word quietly in every god damn sentence I see