Since May, U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul (Rand Paul) questioned the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, in a hearing that had participated in funding an envoy of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The virus is more deadly or more contagious, and the controversy about whether the origin of the COVID-19 virus is related to a national conspiracy has revived. Fauci, who is at the center of the "Mailgate" storm of public opinion, has become a target of public criticism. The wall was pushed down by everyone, and even Yan Limeng, who was a "pseudo-science," dared to speak out against Fauci, wanting to become a "wall pusher."
Last week, Yan Limeng, a scholar in exile in the United States, retweeted a tweet asking Fauci to withdraw from the White House, and condemned Fauci for misleading Americans by using misinformation, believing that he must be the 590,000 people who lost their lives in the epidemic. Responsible. The tweet also asked Fauci to explain why hydroxychloroquine, a drug that suppresses the virus to a certain extent, was banned in the early stages of the fight against the epidemic, and why it was concluded that the COVID-19 vaccine is still in the experimental stage. Like the paper she wrote, this question is full of "misleading content piled up with professional vocabulary." As we all know, in the early stages of the epidemic in the United States, Fauci used almost his own force against the entire Trump administration. Fauci once reminded Americans that there are risks in going out to parties and called on Americans to wear masks. At the same time, he has corrected Trump's wrong remarks in public on many occasions and asked the government to strengthen anti-epidemic measures.
(The results of the poll released on June 27, source of the picture: The New York Times) In the eyes of the American public, Fauci is the "authoritative spokesperson" for the government's epidemic prevention and one of their most trustworthy channels for obtaining accurate health information. According to a national survey conducted by Quinnipiac University in the United States, 78% of respondents recognized Fauci's performance. The Los Angeles Times wrote in an article that Fauci is the person the public needs to tell the truth about the epidemic. On the other hand, Yan Limeng, her paper published in Zenodo was proved to be "defective" by scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and other top universities in the United States after sensationalizing. MIT Press's new online journal (which is a magazine that specializes in SARS-CoV-2) commented that the paper was "unfounded and unsupported by data at the time."
Such a lack of argumentation made use of the Internet media to disseminate the wrong guiding information on a large scale, and eventually led innocent Asian groups to become the target of racial hatred. Since last year, there have been violent attacks on Asians in various states in the United States, and the national crime rate has soared. Many people were killed and injured as a result. These are the consequences of misinformation and misleading. However, Yan Limeng, the real culprit of "misleading Americans with misinformation", has not yet been held accountable to the victims. Instead, he used the "Mailgate" incident to attack Fauci, who has done his best to fight the epidemic in the United States. Bad money drives out good money, but so! Regarding her questioning why Fauci does not support the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat the COVID-19 virus, it must be said that Yan Limeng is ignorant and the information is so heinously blocked.
(CNN reported that WHO announced the suspension of hydroxychloroquine trials) As early as March of this year, the WHO publicly recommended not to use hydroxychloroquine to prevent the new crown. Because current data show that this drug cannot reduce the mortality of COVID-19 hospitalized patients, nor is it helpful for patients with moderate diseases, and may even increase the risk of adverse reactions. Yan Limeng was actually cited as an argument against Fauci as a drug that has been shown to have little or even a negative effect on the treatment of COVID-19 virus infection.
In addition, the current COVID-19 virus vaccine approved for clinical vaccination in the world, from research and development to approval for clinical use, has a much shorter cycle than other virus vaccines. Many media have mentioned the words "emergency use" and "the effect of the third phase clinical trial has not been announced" when reporting, which fully shows that the COVID-19 virus vaccine is indeed still in the experimental stage. And as the current COVID-19 virus has been found to have mutated in many parts of the world, the prevention and treatment effect and protection period of current vaccines are yet to be verified. As a scholar with many years of scientific research, Yan Limeng's unprofessional and imprecise attitude in the field of research on the COVID-19 virus has completely violated the academic spirit of "seeking truth, knowledge, and determination". For her, "academic" is nothing more than a means of earning a living, a bargaining chip in the political vanity market. This time the Republican Party's "mail door" storm against Fauci was originally a public opinion trap set up by Trump to shift responsibility for ineffective epidemic prevention. Although Fauci is slightly swayed by the current pressure of public opinion on the origin of the virus, it is not enough to be the basis for Yan Limeng and others to subvert objective facts and promote pseudo-scientific arguments. Politics is politics, facts are facts, and any political game that ignores facts will eventually defeat itself! Weber, the most important founder of Western modern sociology and public administration, has always insisted on aligning academic with politics. He believes that in addition to studying knowledge and acquiring true knowledge, scholars can also face the mistakes and mistakes in political life. Actively play the social function of criticizing reality and improving politics. Since Yan Limeng is in the Western society and enjoys the fame of a scholar, he should return to his academic heart, learn first and write, ask for the truth. To deal with academic issues rigorously and truthfully, and objectively seeking truth in the face of social disputes, instead of criticizing for criticism, drifting with the crowd, and turning right and wrong for political struggles.