I am no expert, but I am skeptical because the paper results looks way too perfect to be true.
Then instead of doing statistical analysis with things like p-values or probabilities, they make wildly out of scope assertions like this:
> "Considering all pandemics with obtained extremum points, we can conclude that sunspot extrema coincide with the pandemics’ first appearance probably because of mutation on virus DNA or generation of a new virus."
They are claiming both sunspot minima and maxima, not just one or the other (which seems more intuitive?) somehow cause pandemics due to virus DNA mutations, even for pandemics that were caused by bacteria.
I am all for using statistics and data science for discovery of new phenomena, but I suspect this one is total bunk.
Forbush effect, in geophysics, an occasional decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays as observed on Earth, attributed to magnetic effects produced by solar flares, which are disturbances on the Sun
Then instead of doing statistical analysis with things like p-values or probabilities, they make wildly out of scope assertions like this:
> "Considering all pandemics with obtained extremum points, we can conclude that sunspot extrema coincide with the pandemics’ first appearance probably because of mutation on virus DNA or generation of a new virus."
They are claiming both sunspot minima and maxima, not just one or the other (which seems more intuitive?) somehow cause pandemics due to virus DNA mutations, even for pandemics that were caused by bacteria.
I am all for using statistics and data science for discovery of new phenomena, but I suspect this one is total bunk.