Yan’s paper on Zenodo — despite several blistering scientific critiques and widespread news coverage of its alleged flaws — now has been viewed more than 1 million times, probably making it the most widely read research on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Harvard misinformation researchers. They concluded that online scientific sites are vulnerable to what they called “cloaked science,” efforts to give dubious work “the veneer of scientific legitimacy.”
Yan’s paper on Zenodo — despite several blistering scientific critiques
and widespread news coverage of its alleged flaws — now has been viewed
more than 1 million times, probably making it the most widely read research on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Harvard
misinformation researchers. They concluded that online scientific sites are vulnerable to what they called “cloaked science,” efforts to give dubious work “the veneer of scientific legitimacy.”