Dear University of Pennsylvania:
I am an ordinary netizen. Recently, a Chinese lady named Li-meng Yan is already or is applying to be a visiting scholar at your university. Out of respect for the facts, I think it is necessary to provide some information to you:
To begin with, Li-meng Yan has serious academic fraud and academic misconduct. She claimed on social media that the coronavirus was a bio-weapon manufactured by China, and published three papers on Zenodo, a publicly available repository of scientific and academic research to which anyone can upload their work, to support her views. But her academic conduct has been widely criticized by the scientific community. Kevin Bird, a genetics expert at Michigan State University, and Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington, both found that the research institutions affiliated with these papers are the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation founded by Steve Bannon. A search of Google Scholar found that neither of the two organizations has previously published scientific or medical research and it’s unclear whether the paper received any peer review. So her papers are “bizarre and unfounded”. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, said: “Basically,it’s all circumstantial and some of it is entirely fictional.” American virology experts Christian Andersen and Carl Bergstrom said Li-meng Yan’s paper ignored the vast body of published literature regarding what is known about how coronavirus circulate in wild animal populations and the tendency to spill over into humans, they also pointed out that the report whipped up wild conspiracy theories. In addition, Li-meng Yan majored in medicine in the mainland of China, and the subject of her doctoral degree was not virus, but ophthalmology. If Dr. Yan found what was artificially made in the viral genome sequence,how could others not find it? The University of Hongkong responded that Li-meng Yan never conducted