A paper just out in eccentric medical journal Medical Hypotheses caught my eye yesterday:

Potential role of calcifying nanoparticles in the etiology of multiple sclerosis

Hmm, I thought, this looks interesting. I’d never heard of the idea that nanoparticles could cause neurological illness.

So I read the paper and quickly found myself falling down a (nano)rabbithole into a fascinating and little-known tale of strange science.

It turns out that the ‘calcifying nanoparticles’ ment