James Lyons-Weiler
James Lyons-Weiler (born July 4, 1967) 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. His doctorate is in Conservation biology. He was a University of Pittsburgh faculty member (2003-2009). History 
Lyons-Weiler has been making numerous false and misleading claims about COVID-19, and about vaccines in general for years. 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. 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. 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

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1967 births
Living people
American anti-vaccination activists
COVID-19 conspiracy theorists
University of Nevada, Reno alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
20th-century American zoologists