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Paper Blaming COVID-19 on 5G Technology Withdrawn

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 27 2020, @11:37PM   
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Paper blaming COVID-19 on 5G technology withdrawn:

A paper which argued that 5G cellphone technology could lead to infection with the novel coronavirus has been retracted, but not before scientific sleuth Elisabeth Bik wondered whether it was the "worst paper of 2020."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The abstract is now marked "WITHDRAWN" on PubMed and the paper has disappeared from the journal's website.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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Original Submission

• Re:Follow the links (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 28 2020, @11:57PM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday July 28 2020, @11:57PM (#1027857) Homepage

  And no, it's not anti-informative, it's quite explicit, you even derped about how you failed to understand the explicit information I provided. Follow the fucking links to get to her blog. "Which one?" you derp. "Did you even try the first one in the quoted section of the retractionwatch article?" I am forced to respond with a sigh, and with a "Don't bother, I know the fucking answer."

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