"Jonathan B. Britten" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This whole calculation is misleading because it ignores the
> question of how long nanobacteria live. It assumes none die. With
> a very short life span, the rate or reproduction might barely keep
> up with the death rate.
> I assume this calculation was intended to be a joke.
>JBB
Yes, Jonathan, it was in jest. But alas, I started looking at
nanobacteria more carefully, and it looks like the whole thing is a
joke.
I tracked down the original 1998 paper by Olavi Kajander and Neva
Ciftcioglu of the University of Kuopio in Finland. They claimed to
have found nanobacteria, surrounded by a calcium-rich mineral called
apatite, in human kidney stones. You can read it here:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/95/14/8274
The paper includes many SEM images of different-looking structures.
Some appear identical to normal bacteria.
After publishing the paper, they moved to Florida and started a
company called nanobaclabs and started pumping out press releases
claiming to have developed products that detect these things and
ways of treating infections. Here's one example:
http://www.nanobaclabs.com/content/pressreleases/2005_03_16_1.htm
Note they claim "Nanobacteria infection multiplies faster in space
flight simulated conditions than on Earth". That means putting a
person in something that simulates no gravity. I don't know how they
do that for more than a minute or so in an airplane in a parabolic
flight path. There are many other dubious claims from this company.
Anyway, they got someone at NASA to give them a contract, which they
touted as evidence the problem was real. Here's part of the press
release:
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PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Monday, September 13, 2004
Source: Nanobac Life Sciences
NASA's Johnson Space Center to Study Nanobacteria
Nanobac Life Sciences, Inc. (OTCPK: NNBP) is pleased to announce the
signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center
(JSC), Houston Texas, to collaborate on research on Nanobacteria and
its nature and role in pathological calcification, including the
detection and treatment of the pathogen. Since Astronauts may be
more prone to an increased rate of pathological calcification while
in a zero gravity environment, the collaboration will bring a new
approach to NASA's need to better understand the effects of long-
term space travel on humans.
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Note how the claim has grown from "space flight simulated
conditions", to "increased rate of pathological calcification while
in a zero gravity environment." By the time you grasp that, your
mind conveniently forgets the "may be" preface.
Now everyone jumps on the bandwagon. Researchers find these things
everywhere. In rocks, Martian meteorites, even growing in tap water
in Austin. Here's some pictures:
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/geosciences/4site/nannobacteria.htm
The only problem, these pictures don't look anything like the
pictures in the original paper.
But that doesn't matter. Everyone who wants a grant has to write
about these things, so some real crud gets accepted. Once out there,
it lasts forever.
There are many papers that try to show the scam, but they are lost
in the noise. Here's one conclusion:
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In the absence of new evidence to the contrary, Nanobacterium
sanguineum now seems now to be a myth. What we are left with is a
clever and deceptive marketing scheme.
http://www.drcranton.com/nanobacteria.htm
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So do your own studies, and come to your own conclusions. But I
don't think these things are any more real than the TEM photos of
silver particles, which Frank has shown are simply silver hydroxide
and are completely meaningless.
But everyone still publishes them:)
Regards,
Mike Monett
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http://silversol.freewebpage.org/index.htm
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http://silversol.freewebpage.org/spice/xtal/clapp.htm
Noise-Rejecting Wideband Sampler:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/add.automation/sampler/intro.htm
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