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>Millimeter waves can also harm insects and promote the growth of drug-resistant pathogens

This gives me tinfoil-hat vibes to be honest. Why would millimeter waves specifically promote the growth of drug-resistant pathogens? What's the overlap?

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My guess would be conjecture that millimeter waves increase plasmid uptake/transformation above natural rates. I think this is unlikely given the feature sizes here and the energy typically required to ‘shock’ bacteria into plasmid uptake, but have not attempted to research.

Lol isn't pretty much every pathogen many orders of magnitude smaller than a millimeter?

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