James Lyons-Weiler

James Lyons-Weiler (born July 4, 1967)[1] is an American pseudo-scientist and anti-vaccine activist who operates his one-person, home-based non-profit organization, Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge.[2] His doctorate is in Conservation biology. He was a University of Pittsburgh faculty member (2003-2009).

James F. Lyons-Weiler
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Nevada, Reno
Scientific career
FieldsEcology
Institutions
ThesisData exploration and hypothesis testing in statistical and computational phylogenetic systematics (1998)

History

Lyons-Weiler has been making numerous false and misleading claims about COVID-19, and about vaccines in general for years.[3][4][5][6] United States Court of Federal Claims Special Master Christian J. Moran concluded in 2020 that Lyons-Weiler was "wholly unqualified to opine on the question of vaccine causation"; the decision related to a lawsuit in which Lyons-Weiler testified claiming that a woman was injured from HPV vaccine.[3][7]

His February 2020 claim that SARS-CoV-2 contains a genetic sequence, thus proving that the virus was probably engineered in a laboratory, was repeatedly discredited by researchers and fact-checkers.[8][9]

His Wordpress blog, Science, Public Health Policy and the Law claims to be a scientific journal, with an advisory board consisting of three other prominent anti-vaccine personalities.

References
  1. "Author and Research Scientist James Lyons-Weiler, PhD – Extended Biography". jameslyonsweiler.com. 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  2. Montesano, Nicole. "County COVID resolution comes under attack from residents". News-Register. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  3. Barrett, Malachi (2021-05-07). "Michigan activists boost 'experts' to justify anti-vaccine stance. Health officials say their science doesn't hold up". MLive.com. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  4. McDonald, Jessica; Jaramillo, Catalina (2021-01-22). "Viral Video Makes False and Unsupported Claims About Vaccines". FactCheck.org. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  5. "Video shared on Facebook inflates risk of Moderna vaccine 40-fold". Politifact. 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  6. Stinelli, Mick (2021-01-29). "Parties give closing statements in Crack'd Egg closure case". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  7. Moran, Christian (2020-10-19). "Decision Denying Compensation". United States Court of Federal Claims. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  8. "2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) does not contain "pShuttle-SN" sequence; no evidence that virus is man-made". Health Feedback. 2020-02-10. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
  9. Hao, Pei; Zhong, Wu; Song, Shiyang; Fan, Shiyong; Li, Xuan (2020). "Is SARS-CoV-2 originated from laboratory? A rebuttal to the claim of formation via laboratory recombination". Emerging Microbes & Infections. 9 (1): 545–547. doi:10.1080/22221751.2020.1738279. ISSN 2222-1751. PMC 7144200. PMID 32148173.


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