2020年10月8日,环境科学领域权威期刊Science of the Total Environment发表了一篇来自美国匹兹堡大学的一篇题为:Can Traditional Chinese Medicine provide insights into controlling the COVID-19 pandemic: Serpentinization-induced lithospheric long wavelength magnetic anomalies in Proterozoic bedrocks in a weakened geomagnetic field mediate the aberrant transformation of biogenic molecules in COVID-19 via magnetic catalysis 的奇文。