Comments on: Nanoparticles used to target tumors can cause DNA damage across the body’s protective barriers http://www.coldtruth.com/2009/11/06/nanoparticles-used-to-target-tumors-can-cause-dna-damage-across-the-bodys-protective-barriers/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:16:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: John http://www.coldtruth.com/2009/11/06/nanoparticles-used-to-target-tumors-can-cause-dna-damage-across-the-bodys-protective-barriers/comment-page-1/#comment-1530 John Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:57:50 +0000 http://www.coldtruth.com/?p=164735#comment-1530 So nano particles somehow manage to produce molecules that somehow manage to get through an impervious barrier that somehow manage to damage cells. That's an awful lot of maybe's. Isn't it rather more likely that some of the more "outlandish" ideas about the nature of matter are looking less outlandish by the day? Maybe very small pieces of matter magnify the much smaller effects we see around us every day. Isn't science supposed to be about believing in the results of such experiments and not about trying to explain them away in such an outlandish way as the "nano particle/produce new molecule/molecule transfers somehow/cell is damaged somehow" mechanism proposed in this article? http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/01/06/crackpot-or-genius-has-a-shell-boffin-stumbled-on-a-scientific-breakthrough/ Isn't it more likely the nano particles affect something fundamental about how nearby matter is maintained and it is this effect that damages the DNA? There's only so long we can all keep our collective heads in the sand before the inherent inconsistencies in our present ideas bring the house of cards tumbling down. So nano particles somehow manage to produce molecules that somehow manage to get through an impervious barrier that somehow manage to damage cells. That’s an awful lot of maybe’s. Isn’t it rather more likely that some of the more “outlandish” ideas about the nature of matter are looking less outlandish by the day? Maybe very small pieces of matter magnify the much smaller effects we see around us every day. Isn’t science supposed to be about believing in the results of such experiments and not about trying to explain them away in such an outlandish way as the “nano particle/produce new molecule/molecule transfers somehow/cell is damaged somehow” mechanism proposed in this article?

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/01/06/crackpot-or-genius-has-a-shell-boffin-stumbled-on-a-scientific-breakthrough/

Isn’t it more likely the nano particles affect something fundamental about how nearby matter is maintained and it is this effect that damages the DNA? There’s only so long we can all keep our collective heads in the sand before the inherent inconsistencies in our present ideas bring the house of cards tumbling down.

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