James Lyons-Weiler

James Lyons-Weiler (born July 4, 1967)[1] is an American scientist who is the CEO of the non-profit organization Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. He has degrees in zoology, ecology, and conservation biology, and is a former University of Pittsburgh faculty member. He has made numerous false and misleading claims about COVID-19 and vaccines.[2][3][4][5] 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 had testified claiming that a woman was injured as a result of the HPV vaccine.[2][6] His February 2020 claim that SARS-CoV-2 contains a genetic sequence proving that the virus was probably engineered in a laboratory was discredited by researchers and fact-checkers.[7][8]

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)

References

  1. "Author and Research Scientist James Lyons-Weiler, PhD – Extended Biography". jameslyonsweiler.com. 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  2. 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.
  3. McDonald, Jessica; Jaramillo, Catalina (2021-01-22). "Viral Video Makes False and Unsupported Claims About Vaccines". FactCheck.org. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  4. "Video shared on Facebook inflates risk of Moderna vaccine 40-fold". Politifact. 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  5. Stinelli, Mick (2021-01-29). "Parties give closing statements in Crack'd Egg closure case". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  6. Moran, Christian (2020-10-19). "Decision Denying Compensation". United States Court of Federal Claims. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  7. "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.
  8. 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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