Gravitational fields, silkworm excrement, and "putor" programs. In a peer-reviewed journal.

[muriel_volestrangler]

Springer Nature flushed any reputation for quality control down the toilet. It took them a year to retract a paper on "Development of a safe antiparasitic against scuticociliates (Miamiensis avidus) in olive flounders: new approach to reduce the toxicity of mebendazole by material remediation technology using full-overlapped gravitational field energy":

Sometimes, a paper comes along that is so revolutionary, it defies description. So rather than try to do justice to a recent paper in Parasitology Research, we’ll reproduce a few paragraphs here:

A certain point between the center of the earth and the center of a certain outer planet is where the gravities of each interact, where their energies are exchanged, and also where numerous other gravities are working. Therefore, matter composed of elements at this point could receive FOGF energy, named “Dong-ta-ra-con-ching,” and in turn more energy will be received by rotation and revolution of the earth. In order to induce this energy into matter, we developed the material remediation installation “Putor” (Fig. 2), which could force synchronization in MBZ, make MBZ normally receive FOGF energy, and reduce toxicity of MBZ. It consisted of the “Eup-cha” and the “Nap-cha” putor program. The Eup-cha putor program induces energy from the center of the earth, whereas the Nap-cha putor program amplifies numerous weak extraterrestrial energies using natural matter, silkworm. To treat MBZ, the Eup-cha putor program was installed under MBZ and the Nap-cha putor program was installed over MBZ.

The principle of this Putor installation is briefly explained. As mentioned in the introduction, elements on the earth receive FOGF energy, and thus living organisms comprised of these elements are also expected to receive FOGF energy. We investigated the capacities of FOGF energy reception in various living organisms, and finally we chose the silkworm because it seemed to receive energy almost all day. We raised them, studied their properties every spring and autumn for 15 years, and could obtain the suitable silkworm, named “Ho-ho-nong”, for our purpose. Silkworm excrement was the most appropriate because it was not denatured easily, unlike other parts such as heads, skins, and silk glands that are composed of protein. However, silkworm excrement alone was not enough to remediate the destroyed elements, and therefore we placed the excrement at the top and the bottom of several trees and induced amplification, using the energy reception ability of the trees. The Nap-cha and the Eup-cha putor programs of the material remediation installation Putor were produced using this procedure.

Unfortunately, the paper, originally published on July 21, 2018, no longer receives energy, because it was retracted. Here’s the retraction notice:

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief and the Publisher. Post publication peer review has found that the conclusions regarding the phenomenon of full-overlapped gravitational field (FOGF) energy are not supported by evidence. In addition, the supplementary file has been removed as it was published in error. All authors agree to this retraction.

We asked the journal’s editors, Una Ryan of Murdoch University in Australia and Julia Walochnik of the Medical University of Vienna, why it took post-publication peer review to determine that the paper was nonsense. In other words, what exactly were the peer reviewers, editors, and publisher — that’s Springer Nature — doing between March 5, 2018, when the paper was submitted, and July 6, 2018, when it was accepted?

The editors did not respond, but apparently forwarded our email to Springer Nature. A spokesperson for the publisher responded:

In the interests of being fair and following due process, the paper was sent for a post publication peer review, following which all authors agreed to retract the paper as stated in the retraction note. We treat all correspondence on integrity matters as confidential and cannot comment on details of the peer review process.

https://retractionwatch.com/2019/07/23/gravitational-fields-fish-excrement-and-putor-programs-how-did-this-pure-utter-nonsense-get-into-in-a-peer-reviewed-journal/

You'd have thought "gravitational field energy" in the title would have got any editor of a parasitology journal suspicious enough to at least read it before publishing it. Or any peer reviewers, if there really were any.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Perhaps the reviewers were ...

suffering from neurocysticercosis.