Russian inventors presented a device called “Thor”, which, according to them, effectively suppresses viruses through electromagnetic radiation. We decided to check whether modern scientific ideas are consistent with the promising statement of scientists.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Vasily Shpak reportedthat the device is “with its radiation, absolutely harmless to a person, five times less powerful than radiation from your smartphones, for 15 minutes of work provides a person with a coronavirus infection during the day”. On the website of the developer - the Granit concern - there is such information: “Its electromagnetic power is several times lower than the power of household appliances and smartphones. Creating electromagnetic interference to the pathogen, it does not have any negative effect on a living organism. ” Founder of Granita Elena Bondarchuk Adds: “Like any protein essence, coronavirus has its own wave. We deciphered it, directed it to the virus ... In fact, we are rumbling, it is not able to multiply, and immunity is calmly coping. ” Along with the Thor, the Granit concern was invented by nanopers from a liquid polymer. “Microdies are created on the arm. The virus will die within 24 hours. Not only coronavirus, but polio, HIV, herpes ... This will be sold at the level of ordinary antiseptics, ”she explains the principle of their action. Some media call the miracle approval microbes splitter, u others In the comments, users are worried about whether such a device will be another marketing trick for lure of money from gullible pensioners.
There are many questions to the press release issued for the presentation of the device to the wide masses. Below we will highlight the main statements and try to deal with them and the principle of operation of this apparatus. So, the manufacturer’s statements can be conditionally divided into:
1) medical:
- Already on the fifth day of use in the IGM antibodies hospitalized with coronavirus infection, which confirm the development of the disease, become negative (this quote has already been removed from the site, but Saved in the cache);
- On the fifth day of use, 87% of patients have a negative titer of PCR (quote also Remove from an official resource);
- Within 15 minutes of operation, the device Provides A healthy person is a daily protection against infection with coronaviral infection.
2) physical:
- Coronavirus (like another protein essence) has its own wave and electromagnetic field;
- Scientists were able to decipher this wave;
- the device deactivates the virus by creating electromagnetic interference to it;
- the device can be used without restrictions in the presence of people: in residential, industrial premises, medical institutions, in the open air;
- Its electromagnetic power is several times lower than the power of household appliances and smartphones.
First, we will deal with medical indicators of the declared efficiency of the device. It is argued that "already on the fifth day of use in the IGM antibodies hospitalized with coronavirus infection, which confirm the development of the disease, become negative." Antibodies, or Immunoglobulins, - these are large globular proteins of blood plasma, necessary to neutralize various pathogens (mushrooms, bacteria, parasites, viruses). The presence of IGM antibodies characterizes the acute course of the disease, they are neutralized by the body during recovery.
There are the following results analysis on IgM:
- less than units (with IgG, marker of the disease, less than 10) - was not sick or ill (at IgG more than 10);
- From one to two - this is a dubious result;
- More than two are the stage of the disease.
Class M Immunoglobulins, as well as any other class, are expressed in whole and fractional numbers, including zero. The negative values of the immunoglobulin, like most blood parameters, are not accepted. If you translate from the medical into Russian “antibodies of antibodies”, it is still to say: “On the table lay a negative number of pencils.” At the same time, in household communication, the results of such an analysis can be called negative (there is no infectious process) and positive (the infectious process is underway), however, such a wording is unlikely to describe the medical device.
Apparently, the error was promptly noticed and fixed to another wording: "On the fifth day of use, 87% of patients have a negative titer of PCR." PCR is a polymerase chain reaction that can detect any pathogen in the sample if there is at least its slightest particle, acting on the principle of repeated copying of the fragment. And the titer is the limiting dilution of blood serum, in which antibodies are found in the sample. PCR on coronavirus is taken from the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx and/or oropharynx, that is, blood serum is not present by default. Moreover, when analyzing by the PCR method, nothing is bred, but, on the contrary, multiply multiplying. And the PCR is determined not by the presence or absence of antibodies, but by the presence of the particles of the virus on the mucosa. That is, again the terminological and factual error.
There are medical questions to the design of the study. There is no complete description of the experiment in the public domain, so you have to rely only on information from the manufacturer’s website. The device was investigated in a group of 236 people divided into three categories: those who received the influence of the “Thor” device, those who did not receive it, and those who received a placebo. All participants were hospitalized in clinics in the Samara State Medical University. Information on what day after the detection of coronavirus infection the patients were hospitalized, on what day after detection and hospitalization, the effects of devices were started, which age group had the subjects, whether additional chronic diseases had, whether the same list of drugs in the same dosage received, in the description. Without these data, it is difficult to judge the results. So, for example, the largest amount of the virus patient Selects Two days before and a day after the appearance of symptoms, a significant decrease in the viral load falls on the seventh day and further. Thus, patients who, before seeking hospitalization, were treated at home within a few days will demonstrate a decrease in viral load earlier than those who lay to the hospital, barely sick. Accordingly, the comparison of their PCR tests on the fifth day of hospitalization (when exposed to or without “Thor” on them), in advance incorrectly.
It should also be noted that the researchers observed the participants only 28 days after discharge from the hospital, while we concluded about "a decrease in the severity of the post -shoe syndrome." In this case, the definition of post -shoe syndrome according to the classification of the WHO Such: “The condition that occurs in persons with suspicion of coronavirus or confirmed anamnesal infection three months after the start of the COVID-19, with symptoms that last at least two months and cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis.” That is, the observation period of a little less than a month simply does not fit into the framework of the occurrence of a post -shoe syndrome.
And finally, the last medical statement “The device is within 15 minutes of work Provides A healthy person during the day protection against infection with coronaviral infection. ” In simple terms, the manufacturer promises that the one who has exposed to the device in the morning within a quarter of an hour will have protection against the virus for the next 24 hours. That is, the device has a certain safety action of a short interval. Scientists do not explain how this effect will be achieved, however, one can assume several options based on the already known achievements of science.
- Antibodies that occur as a result of a disease or vaccination have a safety effect. However, no antigen of coronavirus into the human body and further stimulation of the formation of antibodies in the description of the device is not said. Moreover, the exposition time (15 minutes) is not enough for the development of an immune response, and the immune response that has arisen lasts exactly longer than 24 hours.
-Since the SARS-COV-2 virus penetration is an angiotensin-receptor (ACE2) on its surface, in the theory, changing the structure of the receptor, you can withstand the infection with the virus. Work over creation The synthetic analogue of ACE2 is already underway, but this principle of operation is not declared in the TOR device.
Thus, without a detailed explanation of how the protection will work, it is not possible to judge such the possibility of the device. At the same time, if scientists have invented some new way, the demonstration of its effectiveness could become an occasion at least for nominating them at the Nobel Prize. But so far there are not even just publications about opening in reviewed magazines.
Now let's move on to the statements of manufacturers relating to the principle of operation of the device.
The electromagnetic field is a special form matter, with the help of which there is an interaction between charges, particles and fields. It occurs with the difference in voltage and passage through the current field. Any atom has a magnetic field - however, it is extremely weak. In the molecule (consisting of atoms), these fields can be mutual, but not more than several times. This is not enough to highlight one specific molecule against the background of the fields of all other surrounding atoms and molecules. At the inner shell of the virus (capsid), consisting of proteins, also Present An electric charge that occurs due to a different amount of amino- and carboxyl groups in the composition, and a certain electromagnetic field. It is also necessary to deal with the concept of “wave of the virus”. Since there is no permanent field outside the physical abstractions of the permanent field, any real field gives rise to waves, therefore, these concepts in an applied study can be considered identical. The study of the electromagnetic field of the molecule can be carried out to clarify its composition, this method is called magnetic resonance spectroscopy. However, in the case of coronavirus whose genome and proteins are already studied by sequencing, such a study is unjustified, since it is not able to give us any new knowledge. In theory, scientists of the Garant concern could really decipher the wave emanating from the virus and create a declared “smoke” for it, but for this they would have to use a very strong magnetic field inside the magnetic resonance spectrograph. For the study of molecules Used fields with induction from 0.23 to 0.58 tesla, and, according to Expert application, the induction of the field created by the device is only 1.5 microtesl, which is 333,000 times (!) Less necessary. In addition, the certification of the device has declared the frequency of its operation - 30–1000 MHz, radio and microwave oven are working within this range, but the closest device is the device - this Woki-Toki. At the same time, neither the field arising from the waves of the radio receiver, nor arising from the microwave oven are able to mainly deactivate viruses.
The statement is also refuted in a similar way that "the device deactivates the virus by creating electromagnetic interference." As already mentioned, the fields of individual atoms in the molecules are not mutually involved in such a thing that it becomes possible to distinguish the electromagnetic field of a particular molecule from the field of the atoms and molecules surrounding it. Therefore, today there is no way to deactivate one protein structure in isolation, without violating the integrity of the other nearby. If we assume that the device can really destroy the amino acids of the virus, which is already in the human body, then it should with the same effectiveness destroy the body's own amino acids, exposing the body tissue to irreversible decay. On electromagnetic radiation, the operation of another device is based on the effectively stopping cell division, - Gamma-Note. By ionizing DNA atoms, it leads to the destruction of molecular connections, simultaneously exposing water to radiolise, that is, violating the cell cytoplasm. It is worth noting that the gamma-knife acts both on the tumor cells and on healthy cells-however, with different intensity. That is, its radiation cannot be used to destroy viruses without harm to the health of people in the same room. Thus, we approach the dilemma: either the device works with a declared way, but it is unsafe, or the device is safe, but does not work. Given its technical characteristics, the second option is most likely.
It is worth noting that in April 2021 a court of intellectual rights was held, which Rejected A patent application for a similar device is an electromagnetic destroyer of the viruses directed against HIV, since the court did not see evidence of "the presence of an electrical oscillatory circuit in a cage or molecule, which would resonate when the stated effect on the cage."
Finally, the statement that the electromagnetic capacity of the device is several times (and according to the deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Vasily Shpak, five times less than the capacity of the smartphone and household appliances, it is impossible to verify, since there are no data on such a characteristic in open sources.
We also addressed the commentary to Yaroslav Ashikhmin, therapist, and candidate of medical sciences. “I’ll make a reservation right away that I express an exclusively personal opinion, I have no conflict of interests with the manufacturers of this installation,” he said. - The principle of operation of this device is contrary to the basic laws of physics and biology, it is not tested in accordance with the principles of evidence -based medicine. Personally, I am ashamed to look in the eyes of European colleagues. This thing either has strong radiation and then unsafe, and if it is safe, it is completely useless. Unfortunately, in our country there are two medicines: one is more or less decent, and the second is a whole range of various devices and dietary supplements, which parasitizes on magical thinking. ”
Thus, most of the manufacturer’s statements do not correspond to scientific facts, factual errors were noticed in the description of the device, and doctors express reasonable doubts about the effectiveness of this method of treatment and the prevention of new coronaviral infection.
Most likely not true
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