Is it irresponsible to speculate on the similarity of Figure 3 to 1970s SF cover art?

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

Here at the Riddled School of Alternative Ethics we are familiar with the concept of human photosynthesis, but Elisabeth Bik has encountered a version of that concept which reaches new levels of I-can't-even. The Human Photosynthesis Study Center is the source of at least 56 papers addressing the implications for well-being, cancer and Alzheimer's Disease of "the amazing ability of the human body to transform the visible and invisible light energy into chemical free energy through dissociation and re-formed from the water molecule".

Evidently “Human being begin to lose the capacity to split the water molecule at 26 years old, ca. 10 % each decade, and after fifties goes into free fall” My own capacity reached terminal velocity a long time ago.

Go read the whole thing, as they say. I shall stay here and admire Figure 4, from which we learn that "The mesencephalon is entirely imbued by the energy that coming from melanin, night and day; all the life; and can be schematized as hereby above. Note that energy coming from both sides".



Either that, or it's Saruman clutching his Palantír while made up as the worst clown EVAH.