Li-Meng Yan

Li-Meng Yan
Born1983 or 1984 (age 40–41)[1]
Qingdao, Shandong, China
Alma materCentral South University
(Master of Medicine 医学硕士学位)
Southern Medical University
(Doctor of Medicine 医学博士学位 in ophthalmology)
University of Hong Kong (Postdoctoral Fellow)[2]
Medical career
ProfessionPost-doctoral researcher
FieldMedicine
InstitutionsUniversity of Hong Kong School of Public Health
State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sub-specialtiesImmunology
ResearchInfluenza vaccine
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yan.

Li-Meng Yan or Yan Limeng (simplified Chinese: 闫丽梦; traditional Chinese: 閆麗夢) is a Chinese virologist,[3] known for her publications and interviews alleging that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a Chinese government laboratory. Her publications have been widely dismissed as flawed by the scientific community.[4][5][6][7]

In April 2020, she fled to the United States. She co-authored several preprint research papers[a] claiming that SARS-CoV-2 was "produced in a laboratory."[9][10][11] According to scientific reviewers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Yan's paper offered "contradictory and inaccurate information that does not support their argument,"[4] while reviewers from Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 criticised her preprints as not demonstrating "sufficient scientific evidence to support [their] claims."[5]

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  3. ^ Timberg, Craig. "Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway". Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 7, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
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  6. ^ Timberg, Craig (February 13, 2021). "Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway". Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 7, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
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  8. ^ Kuznia, Rob; Bronstein, Scott; Griffin, Drew; Devine, Curt (October 21, 2020). "How a Covid-19 origin theory backed by Bannon unraveled". CNN. Archived from the original on May 3, 2022. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
  9. ^ a b Brouillette, Monique; Renner, Rebecca (September 18, 2020). "Why misinformation about COVID-19's origins keeps going viral: Another piece of coronavirus misinformation is making the rounds. Here's how to sift through the muck". National Geographic. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  10. ^ Hakim, Mohamad S. (February 14, 2021). "SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19, and the debunking of conspiracy theories". Reviews in Medical Virology. 31 (6): e2222. doi:10.1002/rmv.2222. ISSN 1099-1654. PMC 7995093. PMID 33586302.
  11. ^ Graham, Rachel L.; Baric, Ralph S. (May 19, 2020). "SARS-CoV-2: Combating Coronavirus Emergence". Immunity. 52 (5): 734–736. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2020.04.016. ISSN 1074-7613. PMC 7207110. PMID 32392464.


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