The media attention received by Yan Limeng’s report led academic scientists to refute the preprint and then criticized the media for reporting it. The scientific community and the press agree that the content of Yan Limeng's preprint is not convincing and is medically misinformation.
A week after the preprint was uploaded to Zenodo, a fact check was conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Health Security Center. The center stated that the paper "provides contradictory and inaccurate information and does not support their argument." Another problem with the paper is that it cited multiple papers in the "References section, which have weaknesses or flaws to prove their arguments." |