“Even now, she (Yan) is preparing another paper, nearing 30…

1. “ Yan, who previously was a postdoctoral fellow at Hong Kong University but fled to the US in April, agreed in an interview with Washington Post that online scientific sites are vulnerable to abuse, but she rejected the argument that her story is a case study in this problem”

2.” Rather, Yan said, she is a dissident trying to warn the world about what she says is China’s role in creating the coronavirus. ”

3.”She (Yan) used Zenodo, with its ability to instantly publish information without restrictions, because she feared the Chinese government would obstruct publication of her work. Her academic critics, she argued, will be proven wrong.”

4.”None of them can rebut from real, solid, scientific evidence,” Yan said. “They can only attack me.”

5.”Anais Rassat, a spokeswoman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates Zenodo as a general purpose scientific site. “We don’t think taking down the report is the best solution. We want it to stay and indicate why experts think it’s wrong.”

6. “It’s very funny that everyone is worrying about preprints given that, collectively, journals are not doing a great job of keeping misinformation out,” Robert Sever (co-founder of the best-known pre-print sites medRxiv and bioRxiv) said.

7.” Yan defends her work

Yan said in her interview with The Post that Zenodo’s openness is what drove her decision to use the site.”

8.”(Yan) had initially submitted her paper to bioRxiv because, as a researcher whose work has appeared in Nature, the Lancet Infectious Diseases and other traditional publications, she knew that this preprint server would appear more legitimate to other scientists.”

9.”Yan has a medical degree from Xiangya Medical College of Central South University and a PhD in ophthalmology from Southern Medical University — both in China — and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong”

10.”Yan said. HK university announced she was no longer affiliated with it in July, following an initial appearance on Fox News, saying in a statement that her claim about the origin (CORRECTION: COVER-UP) of the coronavirus “has no scientific basis but resembles hearsay.”

11.”After fled HK, Yan harbored deep suspicions about gov’s potential to block publication of her work. When she checked BioRxiv 48 hrs after making submission, the site appeared to have gone offline, Yan said. Fearing the worst, she withdrew the paper and uploaded it to Zenodo”

12”bioRxiv co-founder, said he could not comment on an individual submission but said that, despite occasional glitches, he was aware of no “prolonged outage” on the site during mid-September and no sign that the Chinese, or anyone else had hacked it”

Evidences of BioRxiv down👇🏻

13”Yan said she listed the Rule of Law entities out of respect for what she said was their work helping dissidents in China, and that they paid for her flight from HK and provided a resettlement stipend while she largely lives off her savings. She said her work is independent”

14”Yan rejected notions that Bannon was helping her spread political claims. “I didn’t know he was so controversial when I was in Hong Kong,” Yan told The Post.”

15”On Sept. 15, the day after Yan’s paper appeared on Zenodo, she was a guest on Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” an appearance watched by 4.8 million broadcast viewers and 2.8 million on YouTube, and that also generated extensive engagement on FB and Twitter”

16” Bannon appeared on Carlson’s show that same week and discussed Yan’s claims.
Republicans, including White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, pushed Yan’s paper along with the hashtag #CCPLiedPeopleDied, a reference to the Chinese Communist Party.”

17”Archives showed the paper had more than 150,000 views on its first day on Zenodo — spectacular reach for a scientific paper, especially one that had not yet been reviewed by any independent experts.”

Link of 1st Yan Report
https://t.co/cjdng8sefM

18”A few days later, the new MIT Press online journal “Rapid Reviews: COVID- 19” featured four scathing reviews, including from Robert Gallo, a renowned titan within the field of virology.
“I would surely not want to be in the Chinese military if they were that naive.”
Really?👇🏻