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Paper Blaming COVID-19 on 5G Technology Withdrawn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Paper blaming COVID-19 on 5G technology withdrawn:

A paper which argued that 5G cellphone technology could lead to infection with the novel coronavirus has been retracted, but not before scientific sleuth Elisabeth Bik wondered whether it was the "worst paper of 2020."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The abstract is now marked "WITHDRAWN" on PubMed and the paper has disappeared from the journal's website.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 Wednesday July 29 2020, @08:50AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday July 29 2020, @08:50AM (#1028043) Homepage
    As a first-order approximation, yes, there's very much a tendency for one to lead to the other. However, Thexalon raises a good point that shows some insights into *why* that tendency occurs. However, if there's a tendency to make the same mistake when implementing system X, then perhaps, even though system X may not be flawed intrinsically, it might be worth steering clear of it just because of inevitability.
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