Most Whacko HP Denial Comment Of The Month

Maybe of all time....no, I've heard some strange stuff.

I'm referring to a comment in the blog I mentioned in my previous post.


One comment includes:

"It (DNA) Chose to make it’s information coding part of the structure, such that mismatched base pairs were more likely in mutated codons, and being weaker than correctly matched codons, are more likely destroyed by background and higher levels of radiation. That, combined with great redundance (multiple Cells), uses low levels of radiation to maintain somatic genetic information.

Radiation helps. It would be bizarre otherwise"

In other words...if one has mismatched codons (normally A & T, and G & C), then the binding strength is weaker making it easier for ionizing radiation to destroy the bad codon.  This would help reduce possible mutations.

Therefore radiation is good!  HA!

Gamma radiation, for example, is usually differentiated from lower energy radiation at about 10,000 eV.  It only takes about 30 eV to ionize molecules generally, so this mismatched codon energy difference is on the order of single eV's.  It just doesn't matter.

So an analogy is that of going on a shooting rampage (radiation) in a shopping mall.  One might kill a serial killer in the process, but that doesn't make shopping mall shooting rampages good!