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Far-fetched process: A training school principal claimed to have hatched chickens from hard-boiled eggs.
CAN a chicken hatch from hardboiled eggs? Most of us will say “no” but a training school principal said “yes, with the use of superpowers!”
Not only did the educator believe in her theory, the editorial team of a journal believed her and published her findings.
The ridiculous claim has landed the principal and the journal in trouble with authorities instructing the training centre and magazine to cease operations pending investigations.
It is reported that the principal has resigned.
The controversy unfolded recently when Pictorial Geography magazine published two papers, Turning hard boiled eggs into fresh eggs – an experimental report on hatching chicken and Hard boiled eggs turned into raw eggs and hatched chicken experimental report (hatching process).
May 01, 2021
Local authorities are investigating after a Chinese journal published a paper claiming students had been able to hatch a chick from a boiled egg.
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CHINA - A vocational college in China has been shut down after its principal claimed her students used “mind power ” to produce chicks from boiled eggs. The journal which published the claims has also been closed.
Guo Ping, who founded the college, was lead author of a paper outlining the experiments and their extraordinary results which was published last month in tourism journal Pictorial Geography
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Guo’s article caused a national scandal after receiving wide attention on China’s social media. State broadcaster CCTV and Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily questioned how it could have been published at all.
China School Shut Down After Principal Publishes Paper Saying Students Can Hatch Eggs With Their Minds
On 4/30/21 at 2:05 PM EDT
A Chinese vocational school has been shut down after its founder and principal published a bizarre report claiming that students with special mind powers could hatch chicks from boiled eggs.
Guo Ping, who founded the Chunlin Vocational Training School in the city of Zhengzhou, published a paper in the journal
Pictorial Geography in March. He wrote that he led several special students who were able to turn boiled fertilized eggs back into live ones, the
South China Morning Post reported.