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

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Paper blaming COVID-19 on 5G technology withdrawn:

A paper which argued that 5G cellphone technology could lead to infection with the novel coronavirus has been retracted, but not before scientific sleuth Elisabeth Bik wondered whether it was the "worst paper of 2020."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The abstract is now marked "WITHDRAWN" on PubMed and the paper has disappeared from the journal's website.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 jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday July 29 2020, @02:53PM (3 children)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @02:53PM (#1028131) Journal

    A careful read of this response will reveal to the experienced forum reader that this is some real shilling right here.

    We have whataboutism, personal attacks, no true scotsman, asking for impossible evidence, demanding that i provide myself a complete solution, muddying the water, generalization.

    Even in just 1, he doesnt even think it is important that we have a clear standard of what 5g even is, like what is the max power or max frequency? That this isnt even interesting to this person, is a huge warning sign he is not legitimately interested in discussion or knowledge.

    He is really trying to get us to believe that EMF only affects on the surface of the body, and that no frequency or magnitude of any kind will affect the function of human cells processes.

    Then he contradicts himself, the body is not electric, but the nervous system is, and magnets could affect that but only giant super magnets close up.

    I know for a fact that any physical object has a frequency response to EMF, and there exists some resonant frequency that could affect it, somehow. If I had a thin wire, or piece of string, or tissue, and I was running a bioelectic level signal across it, and I wanted to use a near or distant transmitter to alter that signal, it is possible.

    He says it is impossible. So I guess you have to pick who to believe.

    I have, however, seen this sort of disinfo in *every single 5g debate online that I have read.*

    EMF does not affect cells, dont ask for a specific spec, dont worry your head, you are paranoid, you dont know what you are talking about.

    And never ever will they repeat that it will not be installed in switzerland, israel or brussels.

    Or that there are no public safety studies or ways to test, and how could there be as the spec basically includes the entire spectrum over 20ghz and there are no testing devices available to the public for those frequencies, to my knowledge.

    So this is a shill, and if anyone is shilling this hard, something fucked has to be going on. Which is to say, someone is trying to fuck over the public.

    https://jmichaelhudson.net/2020/07/28/5g-knowledge/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
    https://archive.is/b5QKt [archive.is]

    Review:
    https://archive.is/T4nXC [archive.is] 25 disinfo tactics, here in the wild for all to see

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2020, @03:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2020, @03:42PM (#1028141)
  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday July 29 2020, @08:03PM (1 child)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @08:03PM (#1028271)

    It's always great to be accused of shilling by someone who feels the urge to promote his own website in the same reply.

    Believe whatever you want. Just, please, don't damage critical infrastructure in your holy war, ok?

    • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday July 30 2020, @08:37PM

      by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Thursday July 30 2020, @08:37PM (#1028895) Journal

      My username promotes my website with everything I do. I tried anonymity pseudonames for more than ten years and it got me nowhere, although I believe my work had effects beyond what I can personally measure. I can prove to you they are erasing my reddit posts one at a time, I know they are censoring me and repressing my ability to get my ideas out, and exist as a writer in the economy.

      My main point was that due to this repression and how everyone assumes everyone is a shill or agent, I spread and anchor my creations over many websites where they are least likely to disappear like is happening at reddit and twitter, now that we know they have buttons that shut down any train of thought from orbit if they want.

      So I dont get your response really, it seems to address something I am not doing.

      It is funny when you write several hundred thousand words and go to extra effort to anchor them so they cant be changed, and in none of these works do I ever even mention the idea of violent sabotage of "infrastructure", that someone would warn me not to do that, or assert I am on a "holy war" when that is one of the main things I oppose in everything I do.

      Israelis and fundamentalists who believe in the 2nd coming are the ones on a holy war and I am not with them in any way, and they are, in my estimation, the ones who are trying to make my life hell on earth, and have nearly done so.

      To be accused of shilling while I fight for my life 2 weeks from homelessness, yet again, is rich. Shilling is inherently for someone else, advertising is for someone else, every creator is allowed to promote their own work without any shame whatsoever, unless they spam.

      It is really odd and beyond what I would ever have expected to spend so much time specifically explaining, with diagrams, what I am about, and for people to continue to see me as some cardboard cutout. And when I am here ready to go on any show, debate any person, respond to every inquiry in good faith, and it is just meaningless to you people. (it is not just you who responds this way on SN)

      Divergent, yes. Weird, yes. moutain of text, yes.

      Fake, no. And I am really staking my life on this while you punt from the shadows. So maybe you should take a look in the mirror at how real you are, eh?