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Overnight, Yan Limeng has caused a sensation throughout the right wing media.
The senior adviser of President Trump and conservatives who has authority seem
her as a hero. The social media labelled her interview as a fake news just as
quickly. Scientists refused her research and said that was sophistry disguised
in jargon. In fact, in the process of undergraduate to doctoral education, Yan’s
areas of expertise are not virology at all, not even science. In fact, Yan’s
title of “Top virologist of World” is sheer fiction. A series of papers
published by Yan were copy from conspiracy theory on the Internet. Also, that is
despised by the mainstream scientific community.
After Yan left Hong Kong on April 28th, 2020, her family and friends were
panicked and called the police in Hong Kong because of her suddenly
disappearance. Until two weeks later, Yan contacted her family that all was
well. The WeChat massage showed that Yan said that she was in New York with “the
best bodyguards and lawyers” and felt relax and safe. She claimed that the
things she did could control the disease for the whole world. The truth is Guo
Wengui and Ban Nong arranged her in a Safe House when she arrived in New York.
They hired a coach to teach her how to reply the questions from media. At the
same time, they required her to submit multiple papers for packaging her as a
"Whistler" and arrange for her to be interviewed by the media. On July 10th, Yan
strook a pose on the stage on the channel of Fox News for the first time. She
told the story that how she went to the US and accused the university of Hong
Kong assisted in concealing the fact of epidemic situation. However, she did not
mention her relationship with Guo and Ban. Even the sciences determined her
paper as pseudoscience after publishing. Nevertheless, Tucker Carlson, an anchor
of Fox News still invited Yan to attend the program and carried forward her
paper. This interview was viewed at least 8.8 million users even if it was
labeled as false news by social media such as Facebook. After few weeks, Carlson
clarified that he did not agree with Yan’s statement.
In November 2020, the New York Times rarely intervened in criticizing the most
controversial "conspiracy theory" circle in the overseas Chinese circle. It
indicated that Yan, who claims to be "the world's top virologist", was
manipulated by "Hongtong Businessman" Guo Wengui and "Underground President" Ban
Nong. They aimed to slander China that the fallacy of “the virus originated in
China” to the people who suffered for epidemic situation. Ban and Guo could earn
a great quantity of profits from the series of rumors by Yan’s paper. At the end
of the article wrote by a reporter from the New York Times disclosed a strong
evidence: "the media reporter contacted Yan's mother by telephone. Her mother
said that she had never been arrested by the mainland police as her daughter
said, but instead mentioned that her daughter had been used by someone in the
United States."
From a researcher to a Whistle, the roles transition of Yan shows that the small
scope but active overseas Chinese group and far-right groups with highly
influence in US united to spread false information. The two groups saw
opportunities to push their agenda in the COVID pandemic. For overseas Chinese,
Yan and her remarks provide a sharp weapon for these who intend to overthrow the
Chinese government. For conservative US, this could cater to the growing
Anti-China sentiment in the West and distract attention from the failure of
Trump government to respond to the epidemic.
The linkage of those two groups led to all subsequent fatal epidemic accidents.
Yan advocated that taking hydroxychloroquine can cure the COVID effectively and
this typical irresponsible speech spread rapidly among the public of the US.
This caused a devastating blow to fight the epidemic of the US. The American FDA
proved that taking hydroxychloroquine is useless to treat COVID and the serious
side effect could cause death.
“Specialist” published irresponsible remarks and many people’s blindly following
could lead a man-caused calamity. Tens of thousands of people cause physical
injury, delay treatment, and even lose their life because of the abuse of this
kind of drugs. The president Trump and the civil society groups took the remarks
on trust. Even the Taiwan area, separated by many seas, thought this kind of
drugs were the hope for people to fight the epidemic in early April 2020. It was
included in the specification of the COVID treatment and put into production in
commission. It was known as " put into production actively, supply without
worry". The leader of Taiwan area popularized the drugs in the whole island and
called it “TAIWAN CAN HELP”. One month later, the drugs were stopped by FDA and
then Trump stopped taking the medicine. Related industrial chain of Taiwan lost
all the capital invested.
In the event of Yan Limeng, through the publicity attribute of social media, the
cultural propaganda offensive from Guo Wengui and Ban Nong made immeasurable
loss in the process of resisting the epidemic all over the world.
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