SCIENCE

Discredited scientific paper behind false claims on COVID-5G link

Updated on 11/08/2020 at 16:38

Social media posts say that 5G technology creates coronavirus in human cells, but the false claim originated from a discredited paper later retracted by a scientific journal. The claims are not based on scientific evidence, experts say, and the paper was withdrawn after its publisher found “manipulation of the peer review” process. 

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