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2026-10-08 Retraction Watch (STEP I)

URL: https://retractionwatch.com/2013/02/22/way-out-there-paper-claiming-to-merge-physics-and-biology-retracted/ (saved pages/rw-2013-02-22.html). Reached from Google query Meyl "PIERS Proceedings" vortex OR scalar OR "field theory".

Found [web]

  • 22 Feb 2013: Meyl's paper "DNA and Cell Resonance: Magnetic Waves Enable Cell Communication" (DNA and Cell Biology, online Oct 2011, print 31(4) 2012) was retracted; the first notice said only "This article has been officially retracted from the Journal." The editor of the Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling told the complainant that Meyl's "Task of the introns, cell communication explained by field physics" would also be retracted.
  • Stated proximate cause: duplicate publication. Per the complainant, the same paper was submitted to JCCS, five days later to DNA and Cell Biology, then in shortened form to PIERS Moscow 2012 and to WMSCI 2012 (four publications).
  • Complainant: Ulrich Berger, economist at the Vienna University of Economics, president of the Austrian Society for Critical Thinking (a skeptics' society: an interested party in the sense of an organised critic). His characterisation: the content is "utter nonsense"; he consulted a molecular biologist, a biophysicist and a geneticist who agreed. That is his and their characterisation, quoted as such.
  • Abstract quoted there (Meyl's own words): DNA generates a longitudinal wave along the magnetic field vector; computed frequencies agree with predicted biophoton radiation; minimising conduction losses gives the double helix; potential vortices "discovered in 1990"; the extended field theory "confirmed in 2009 with the discovery of magnetic monopoles"; the magnetic scalar wave carries genetic information cell to cell and supplies its own energy.
  • Peer review detail: one author-suggested reviewer asked only minor revisions; another called it "way out there" but said it could be right, citing recent work on "bacterial communication by electromagnetic waves".

Bearing

Claim 7 (biological scalar waves) and the publication record of claims 1-3 (the "peer reviewed" self-description on k-meyl.de). Historical record (priority 4): the retractions are for duplication, not for a failed test; no experiment is involved. Meyl's response to the retractions was not found this run (lead).