“They’re trolling us… we think. But how the hell did this get published?” asks Popular Mechanics.
Slashdot reader worldofsimulacra shares their report:
Scientists have uncovered a bizarre, indefensible paper that squeaked through peer review at what appears at first pass to be a legitimate medical journal… 13 listed authors from wildly different fields throw together a series of escalating falsehoods. “Recently, some scientists from NASA have claimed that there may be a black hole like structure at the centre of the earth,” the abstract begins. It only gets crazier from there:
“The earth’s core is the biggest system of telecommunication which exchanges waves with all DNAs and molecules of water. Imaging of DNAs on the interior of the metal of the core produces a DNA black brane with around 109 times longer than the core of the earth which is compacted and creates a structure similar to a black hole or black brane. We have shown that this DNA black brane is the main cause of high temperature of core and magnetic of earth….”
One of the theories to explain the paper is that it was generated using “peer-review-tricking” artificial intelligence, which shuffles key terms and phrases and glues them together into something almost coherent.
Apparently you can’t trust everything you read in the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. The paper’s title? “A Black Hole at the Center of Earth Plays the Role of the Biggest System of Telecommunication for Connecting DNAs, Dark DNAs and Molecules of Water on 4+N- Dimensional Manifold.”
At the top of the paper, the journal has since appended a retraction, leading to a page warning “An internal investigation” has “raised sufficient evidence” that the paper is “not directly connected with the special issue Global Dermatology and contain inconsistent results…
“We apologize to our audience about this unfortunate situation.”
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