行星、暗物质和癌症之间的联系
On the Connection Between Planets, Dark Matter and Cancer
摘要：
在最近的一篇论文中，Zioutas和Valachovic（2018）声称暗物质是黑色素瘤皮肤癌的重要组成部分。这一结论是从他们对美国皮肤黑色素瘤发病率与内行星位置（特别是水星和地球）之间的显著相关性的观察中得出的。在此，我提出了一些反对他们的解释。一些（但不是全部）反驳是基于对来自同一来源的更大数据集的分析，考虑更多的癌症类型并按患者属性（如种族）进行分离。其中一个反驳是，如果黑色素瘤波动的周期与行星轨道相似，是由地球上的暗物质密度增强产生的，那么我们就不得不得出结论，黑人人口对暗物质具有某种免疫力，这一结论似乎与当前的WIMP范式不相容。有趣的是，数据中存在一些周期性，包括Zioutas和Valachovic报告的周期性，但我认为它们必须有社会而不是天文学的起源。
英文摘要：
In a recent paper, Zioutas and Valachovic (2018) claim that dark matter is responsible for a significant fraction of the melanoma skin cancer. This conclusion is drawn from their observation of a significant correlation between skin melanoma incidence in the US and the inner planets positions (especially those of Mercury and Earth). Here I present a number of objections to their interpretation. Some (but not all) of the counterarguments are based on the analysis of a larger dataset from the same source, considering more cancer types and separating by patient attributes, such as race. One of the counterarguments is that, if the melanoma fluctuations with periods similar to planetary orbits were produced by dark matter density enhancements on Earth, then we would have to conclude that the black population is somehow immune to dark matter, a conclusion that seems incompatible with the current WIMP paradigm. Interestingly, some periodicities are present in the data, including the ones reported by Zioutas and Valachovic, but I argue that they must have a societal rather than astronomical origin.
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