The suspension of Dr. Yan's account goes one step further than a warning label or flag. It remains unclear if there was a specific tweet that violated policy.
Reports suggest the scientist's profile had four visible posts, with one being a link to the preprint paper shared this week containing some of her supposed evidence. The report was not peer-reviewed, which is the standard academic evaluation process.
"Natural origin theory, although widely accepted, lacks substantial support," the group's paper stated. "The alternative theory that the virus may have come from a research laboratory is, however, strictly censored on peer-reviewed scientific journals."
It claimed to contain "genomic, structural, medical, and literature evidence" about how COVID-19 could be a lab project created by using bat coronaviruses as a template, but in reality appeared to have little scientific evidence, and no new information.
The claims in the paper were rejected by the wider scientific community. "[The] report cannot be given any credibility in its current form," Andrew Preston, who is an expert in microbial pathogenesis at the U.K.'s University of Bath, told Newsweek.
In a statement to ITV last week, a spokesperson for the University of Hong Kong, where Dr. Yan said she worked, stated: Dr. Yan's statement does not accord with the key facts as we understand them. They have no scientific basis but resemble hearsay."
An unnamed professor who the academic had worked under at the university told the U.K-based TV channel: "Dr. Yan was a postdoctoral fellow in my lab. Her research had nothing to do with human-to-human transmission. All mainstream scientists have failed to find any solid evidence that Sars-Cov-2 [COVID-19] was man-made."
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Do you fucking wackjobs understand what peer review means? This is one person, one single voice making claims that "resemble hearsay". While the plurality of the scientific community says the virus is not man made.
But hey keep buttfucking yourselves into oblivion while you literally come up with some wacko excuse for EVERY STUPID THING this fucker does.
Remember it's a vast global conspiracy all aimed at the poor, totally innocent, always the victim donald trump. The WHOOLE FUCKING WORLD full of medical pros just want to make him look bad on hydroxycholorquine and now scientists from around the world want to stick it to Trump again by disputing that the virus is man-made, disputing Trump narrative that China made and unleashed this virus onto the world so that he can once again play the victim!!
HOLY FUCK TRUMP IS PATHETICALLY WEAK!!!