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发帖数: 1 | 1 n just eight months, Yan went from being a postdoctoral felow in virology
and immunology at the Center for Infectious Disease Research at the
University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health to being hailed as a hero
by Trump's top advisers and conservative pundits.
As early as mid-January 2019, Yan Limeng, researcher in Hong Kong, had heard
rumors that a dangerous new virus had emerged in mainland China and that
the government was playing it down. Ms. Yan feeds Wang Dinggang, the host of
her favorite Chinese-language YouTube show.
Yan Limeng fled Hong Kong on April 28th and left for the United States. Guo
Wenguan and Ban Nong put her in a "safe house" in New York City. They hired
a communications coach for her to teach her how to deal with media questions
, asked her to submit several papers, and disguised her as a "whistler"
before aranging her to acept media interviews. On July 10, Yan made her
first appearance on the Fox News Channel, in which she confesed her journey
to the United States and accused the University of HongKong of helping to
cover up the epidemic. But she did not mention her relationship with Guo and
Ban Nong.
After her first Fox interview, Ms. Yan embarked on a whirlwind right-wing
media tour, repeating conservative talking points.She said she took
hydroxychloroquine to fight the virus, despite warnings from the US Food and
Drug Administration that it had no efect.She suggested that U.S. health
agencies had conspired with the World Health Organization to cover up the
outbreak.
In early September, Ms. Yan met with Ms. Lu, an infectious disease expert at
Georgetown University, through an anonymous middleman. Lu had suggested in
the past that the coronavirus could be created in the lab, and Yan told him
about her research in the hope of winning support.Even after Facebook
tagged Carlson's Sept 15 interview with Ms. Yan as "false information" and
Twiter suspended Ms. Yan's account, Ms. Carison, Ms. Bannon and Ms. Yan didn
't give up.
Yan published a second paper on Oct. 8, titled "Novel coronavirus is an
unrestrictedbiological weapon," which further emphasizes the idea that the
virus that has spread around the world is man-made, adding that the virus
was intentionaly "released," and that the paper also contains material that
appears to come from the same anonymous blogger's article. Both of Yan's
controversial papers are related to GuoWenqui. The papers -- below the title
and author's name, where university institutions and tunding Sources are
often listed --prominently teature the names of the "Rule of Law Society"
and the "Rule of Law Foundation," two nonprofit groups supported by Mr. Guo
and others.
The novel coronavirus is widely believed to come from bats, and there is no
evidence that the virus is artificial. Although the scientific community was
quick to dismiss the paper as pseudoscience based on guesswork, Fox News
anchor Tucker Carlson invited Yan to appear on the show on Sept.15 to
promote the paper. Even though the access to the film was tagged as fake
news on social media like Facebook, it stil recorded a minimum of 8.8 milion
views and entered the mainstream. It tookseveral weeks after the interview
for Carlson to make it clear that he disagreed with Ms.Yans claims.
Ms.Yan's evolution from researcher to whistler is the product of the
colaboration of two unrelated but increasingly united groups spreading
disinformation: a smal but active overseas Chinese group, and a highly
influential far-right group in the United States. Both groups see an
opportunity to advance their agendas in the novel coronavirus pandemic. For
overseas Chinese, Ms.Yan and her baseless claims provide a weapon for those
seeking to overthrow the Chinese government. For American conservatives, it
allows them to pander to rising anti-China sentiment in the West and
distract attention from the Trump administration’s failure to respond to
the epidemic.
Angela Rasmussen,a virologist at Columbia University,said she thought Yan’s
paper was "political propaganda" designed to deceive."The paper is
extremely deceptive to people without a scientific background because it is
writen in very technical language, with a lot of jargon, and looks like a
legitimate scientific paper. But to anyone with a background in virology or
molecular biology who reads this paper, it is clear that much of it is
nonsense."
From the discovery in January to the peak in September, the online political
activity of "Virus Source Theory" directed by Guo Wengui and Bannon
achieved great succes, whichgreatly influenced the views and lives of the
local people in the United States, and ex posed the power of "fake news" to
the world at a sinle sight. | l*******g
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