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Re:Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999 by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:38PM (#40350298)
> bacteria secrete small iron oxide crystals and are able to use those to sense magnetic fields

There is preliminary evidence "that MTB in the gut are associated with grey matter volume in magnetite-rich brain regions related to orientation and navigation" [1].

> Wonder if a nearby RF emitter can cause some of them to run amok

This was explored (and dismissed) in the early noughties [2], when cell-phones-cause-cancer was enjoying a halcyon. (I think it was radiation from CRTs before that. Probably non-organic vegetables today.)

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00343-021-0495-1

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15376948/

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