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Re:German Physicist professor says evidence points to Covid ... by gus_massa on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:20AM (#26192349)
Autotranslation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...

> The study was carried out from January 2020 to December 2020. [...] It does not provide any highly scientific evidence, but does provide numerous and serious evidence:

Even the press release of the university acknowledges that It does not provide any highly scientific evidence.

> The study is published at: http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31754.80323 .

Note that this is a link to a preprint in ResearchGate, not a peer review article. This has the same checks levels than a blog post in WordPress. It is "published" but essentially anyone can publish there whatever they want.

Re:German Physicist professor says evidence points to Covid ... by emrox on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:06AM (#26193929)
his sources are basically YouTube and other unproven articles, mostly from far right extremist sites.

German truth check article for that one: https://www.volksverpetzer.de/uncategorized/uni-hamburg-unwi...

Re:German Physicist professor says evidence points to Covid ... by swagnerd on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:37AM (#26204365)
Within one day of the press release this has drawn so much negative attention in Germany that this "study" became a major embarrassment for the university and its press department. Now they are mostly concerned with damage limitation...
Re:German Physicist professor says evidence points to Covid ... by dominik-2020 on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:02AM (#26191368)
Re:German Physicist professor says evidence points to Covid ... by pts_ on Friday February 19, 2021 @06:48AM (#26192101)
Physicist professor.