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The publication suggesting a link between COVID-19 and Magnetism has been retracted.
The study, published in a peer-reviewed journal, has attracted widespread derision from researchers.
The study titled “Can Traditional Chinese Medicine provide insights into controlling the COVID-19 pandemic: Serpentinization-induced lithospheric long-wavelength magnetic anomalies in Proterozoic bedrocks in a weakened geomagnetic field mediate the aberrant transformation of biogenic molecules in COVID-19 via magnetic catalysis,” was posted on the website of Science of the Total Environment (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142830) on October 8.
During the study, a few healthy rats in the researcher lab unexpectedly became very ill, couldn’t breathe, dropped in 12 hours and had to be sacrificed. The group then had more rats die with the same pathology in February and March of this year. The researchers connected the timing, close to the spring equinox, to that of rising COVID-19 case numbers in the US.
In the paper, researchers proposed that SARS-CoV-2 is a preexisting, endogenous virus in the human genome that is reawakened by the effects of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, but that the virus doesn’t cause the pathology seen in COVID-19. Rather, the disease comes about due to other chemical reactions in the body catalyzed by the magnetic field.
The paper attracted widespread criticism (https://retractionwatch.com/2020/10/29/amulets-may-prevent-covid-19-says-a-paper-in-elsevier-journal-they-dont/).
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