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Paper Blaming COVID-19 on 5G Technology Withdrawn

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 27 2020, @11:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-science dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

no soylents were surprised

Paper blaming COVID-19 on 5G technology withdrawn:

A paper which argued that 5G cellphone technology could lead to infection with the novel coronavirus has been retracted, but not before scientific sleuth Elisabeth Bik wondered whether it was the "worst paper of 2020."

The article, "5G Technology and induction of coronavirus in skin cells," came from a group from Italy, the United States and Russia, and appeared in theJournal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents. The journal is published by Biolife, which asserts that it's peer reviewed but has not responded to a request for comment.

The abstract is now marked "WITHDRAWN" on PubMed and the paper has disappeared from the journal's website. The abstract has been preserved here.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 28 2020, @11:49PM (6 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday July 28 2020, @11:49PM (#1027852) Homepage
    I didn't do any formattind, apart from makinf sure paragraphs are separated by a blank line, "my" formatting is someone else's formatting, and the text was copy-pasta.

    And also irrelevant.

    You couldn't see the links in the summary because I copy-pasted text in my post?!?

    You are out-derping even yourself.
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:02AM (4 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:02AM (#1027863) Journal

    I didn't do any formattind, apart from makinf sure paragraphs

    A bit past Beer-o'clock for our slimness challenged Phil, I see. Leave c0lo alone!!!!

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:30AM (3 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:30AM (#1027892) Homepage
      Nope. Just typing in pitch blackness at past 3am on my phone keyboard on a webpage which alas doesn't even let me see more than a third of the text I type. (And yes, I mentioned it to the devs years back but it was deemed not a high priority to fix)
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      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 29 2020, @03:08AM (2 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @03:08AM (#1027969) Journal

        Hmm, seems fine now. . . You OK, FatPhil?

        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 29 2020, @09:04AM (1 child)

          by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday July 29 2020, @09:04AM (#1028047) Homepage
          Do you consider this fine? In particular this bit right here --------> because I don't like the fact that the
          textbox extends outside the formfield, and is clipped. Notice the complete lack of horizontal scrollbars at the bbottom of the window or forrmfield element.

          http://fatphil.org/tmp/SNclipping.png

          And now consider that my phone is even narrower (800px) than this half of my monitor (960px)
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          • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 29 2020, @09:10AM

            by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday July 29 2020, @09:10AM (#1028049) Homepage
            And yes, I did have to manually recreate the effect by using 2 separate replies. I could have just shrunk the window and you'd have seen the clipped form, but I wanted you to know that there was something that was actually being clipped, so I opened another reply and put exactly the same text into both.

            But anyway, I'm fine, thanks for asking. A little bit annoyed at the level of idiocy that seems to have swept across the planet in the last week, but I guess I'd better have to start getting used to more of that as time progresses and entropy advances.
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:04AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:04AM (#1027865) Journal

    You are out-derping even yourself
    I'm not ashamed with you either, seem you like hearing yourself diminishing others, does it gets you a hardon? (grin)
    The quickest solution to my derping would have been a "See TFS" - 7 characters and a click on the submit button.

    Anyway, end of thread.

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