An Open Letter to The Washington Post

Dear Editors,

One week ago, on Nov. 30, 2022, an article titled “Why China’s covid protests are different” appeared on your website. The article was written by “The Washington Post Opinions Staff,” and a person named “Fang Shimin” was introduced as “a U.S.-based science writer known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China.” It appears that Fang was the main character of the article, which has less than 1,000 words, but Fang’s name showed up 5 times, plus three of his tweets with big images. Obviously, the “Staff” was using Fang to back up their “Opinion.”

As the “Fangologist-in-Chief” repeatedly certified by Fang Shimin himself,[1] it is my obligation to inform you the truth about this person, so that you and your “Opinions Staff” shall not deceive yourselves and mislead your readers any further.

Fang’s true colors

First of all, Fang Shimin (known among Chinese as Fang Zhouzi) is NOT a science writer. Rather, most Chinese people consider him a habitual plagiarist and a “scifool writer,” which means a fraudster who, with secret agendas, fools the public in the name of science. The evidence for the statement is mountainous,[2] the most recent and relevant example is his frantic and paranoid opposition to the policy of mandatory facemask wearing to contain the current pandemic. The fact is, even though Fang’s opposition to the policy has lasted almost 3 years, starting from the very beginning of the pandemic,[3] he has never published a single science writing to explain the scientific foundation of his position. What he did has been spreading various rumors against the effectiveness of the policy,[4] scolding those who obey and support the policy,[5] and cursing China “The Mask Country” that the pandemic there will never end.[6]

The fact is, Fang’s opposition to the facemask policy is so anti-scientific and pseudoscientific, even “Zhi’an Wang,” the other Chinese dissenter cited by the “Staff” in the article, tweeted frequently to ridicule its absurdity.[7] Here is one of his posts:

“Fang Zhouzi the swindler is really ridiculous. Japan has the highest facemask wearing rate in the world even before the pandemic. After the outbreak of covid-19, its wearing rate is still at the top in the world, even without mandatory requirement. Which one of his doggy eyes saw that Japan did not recommend wearing facemasks? Anyone with middle school level logic should be able to see the flaws in Fang Zhouzi's logic.……”[8]

The question is, why did Zhi’an Wang call Fang a “swindler”? Answer: Wang knows Fang extremely well: they were close buddies for many years, but their relationship took a sharp turn in 2013, mainly because Fang was jealous of Wang’s increasing influence and afraid that he could become his major competitor in the GMO promotion business in China.[9] Anyone who knows Fang well knows the fact that promoting GMO food in China has been Fang’s ultimate mission since his return to China in 2000.[10] In other words, science writing and fraud fighting were merely his camouflages to cover up his true identity.

The hate-love complex

Retrospectively, Fang’s calculated move to expel Wang cost him too much. Since 2013, Wang, a self-made professional investigative journalist, has dug up and exposed many Fang’s dirty and ugly secrets, and the dirtiest and ugliest one was Fang’s swindling scam: from 2010 to 2014, Fang had swindled more than six million Yuan (about 1 million USD) from the public in China, many of them were from low-income classes.[11] Because Fang refused to return the swindled money back to the victims, Wang led lawsuits against Fang, in both China and America.[12] Here is what Wang tweeted a few weeks ago:

“I received my passport from the US embassy today, with a media visa on it, and I can freely conduct interviews in the United States in the future. Speaking of going to America, the person I want to interview the most is Fang Zhouzi. This scammer defrauded millions of charitable donations. I got a half of it back in a lawsuit in China. After that, we sued him in the United States, but he was so scared that he peed in his pants, saying that we should sue him in the evil country led by the CCP, and he would accept the judgment of the CCP court.”[13]

So, how did the “U.S.-based science writer known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China” respond? He responded by implying that Wang is a homosexual.[14] Apparently, the “science writer,” - like Donald Trump, Fang has a delusional belief that he is a super genius,[15] - didn’t realize that by doing so, he essentially admitted that what Wang said about him is true.

Too many to not see

“Fang Shimin” and “Zhi’an Wang” were used by “The Washington Post Opinions Staff” to support their negative “opinion” on China’s anti-covid-19 strategy and policy, “for a common cause” and “for the greater good.” The funny thing is, the two Chinese puppets are just the opposite of each other, considering the other person evil being. In other words, there is nothing “common” between the two, so “the greater good” has to be one-sided and half-sized. The above images show Wang’s tweets, every one of them contains the term “Fang Pianzi” (方骗子), which means “Fang the Cheater/faker/fraud/ Imposter/Liar/Swindler.”[16]

The fact is, like Fang, Wang tweets in Chinese only, so like Fang again, almost all of his followers are Chinese; and on Twitter alone, Wang has called Fang a swindler/cheater/liar hundreds of times, so if “The Washington Post Opinions Staff” who were able to find Wang on Twitter, and able to find Wang’s particular posts they could use in their article, the chance that they had never encountered Wang’s anti-Fang posts is extremely low. In other words, by citing Wang and Fang in the same article for the same purpose, whatever it is, “The Washington Post Opinions Staff” did something like using Trump as their primary character witness to blame China for whatever even though they knew the fact that he is a habitual liar, had “made 30,573 false or misleading claims” during his 4-years presidency.[17]

Are there any particular reasons for them, or anyone in the world, to do things like that?

The “Fang-lover” turned into a Fang-hater

Fang is an extremely controversial public figure in China, people either love him or hate him, the former is called fāng fěn (方粉, “Fang-lover,” “Fang pink”), the latter fāng hēi (方黑, “Fang-hater,” “Fang black”). In the past two decades or so, except for a handful, almost all Fang-lovers, including his closest friends, have turned their color from pink to black, and Wang is arguably one of the darkest Fang-haters. On Oct. 18, 2015, Wang established a topic on weibo.com, “The entire nation is busting Fang Zhouzi’s frauds.” In about six months, the topic was viewed 340 million times, a number bigger that America’s population. In 2020, Wang opened his YouTube channel, and among the first videos he made were the stories about his exposure of Fang’s frauds. Fang habitually ignores negative information about himself if he believes a refutation would definitely backfire. In other words, the “fighter” only fights those he deems weaker than himself.

The “patriot” who hates his motherland

So, exactly why did the “science writer” Fang oppose the mandatory facemask policy? There is only one reason: the policy was first adopted by the Chinese government to fight against the virus. Anyone who follows Fang’s twitter cannot help knowing the fact that Fang is the number one China/Chinese hater on the internet. Indeed, Fang hates China and Chinese people so much that he wished, back to his college years, right before deciding to leave the country, that there shall be a catastrophic disaster, “a miraculous destruction,” to wipe out the entire country, completely.[18] When he went back to China from America in 2000 to make his fortune, Fang tried his best to hide his malicious and heinous attitude toward his motherland and compatriots, but in 2013, just after spending $670,000 dirty cash to purchase a house in San Diego, California, but still living in a state-subsidized apartment in Beijing and being paid by the Chinese government, Fang announced that he considers San Diego his second hometown, and Beijing just his battleground.[19] Of course most Chinese people had already known the secret before Fang’s involuntary confession, because what Fang had been doing in the past was targeting Chinese people and slandering the country.

Another example of Fang’s intense hatred toward China and Chinese people is, Fang hates Trump very much, having tweeted thousands of anti-Trump posts, badmouthing almost his every move, he has never made a single critical comment on Trump’s anti-China policy and practice, from the initiation of the trade war to his rumormongering of “Chinese Virus.” Obviously, Fang loves the anti-China and anti-Chinese tsunami started by Trump.

So, exactly why does the “science writer,” who once pretended that he was a patriot who loved China even though the nation is not lovable at all,[20] hate China so much? The story is a long one, starting from his troubled teenager years; but the gist of that tedious and stupid story is that Fang believes that, based upon his super high IQ - he has never revealed the exact number -, he deserves a better, much better, treatment in China than he actually received, which was nothing but being a lowly dog fighting for certain high rank officials. In exchange, Fang was allowed to do wicked things in China, such as swindling money, fooling the public, and revenging on his personal enemies, all in the name of “fighting against fraud” or “science popularization.”

The first pod of gold

Fang’s rise to prominence in China started in 1999, when Falun Gong was suppressed by the Chinese government led by Jiang Zemin, who died a few days ago. The crackdown was actually initiated by the biggest pseudoscientist in China named He Zuoxiu,[21] together with his brother-in-law Mr. Luo Gan, who was in charge of China’s judicial system at the time. Behind He was a group of people aggregated around “The Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature,” found and led by Yu Guangyuan, a former official in the Propaganda Department of CCP Central Committee. Yu was the man who oversaw China’s science circle for CCP between 1950-1966, and after the “Cultural Revolution,” even though his duty was relieved, he still insisted in the ultimate guiding role of “Dialectics of Nature” in scientific research, which means taking what Engels wrote in that book like a fundamentalist.[22] Fang was among the first overseas Chinese students and scholars who openly and actively supported the crackdown: not only did he draft an open letter to support He Zuoxiu,[23] he also wrote, with the help of his anti-cult comrade, almost certain a secret agent, Deng Zixian,[24] at least 3 letters to American newspapers, two of them went directly to the Washington Post,[25] to protest their support for Falun Gong.

Have you got them?

The participation in the crackdown of Falun Gong in 1999 was Fang’s first pot of gold, establishing him as the only heir to Yu Guangyuan, the father of China’s Science Nazi, or “Thought Police” in the science circle. Fang’s involvement in the persecution of Falun Gong was mainly in the propaganda domain: besides appearance in numerous Chinese newspaper reports, he was also on VOA to debate with Falun Gong supporters. Even today, Fang’s website, The New Thread, maintains the “Anti-Falun Gong Collection.” The above images show the two letters to the Washington Post signed by Fang and his lackey Deng Zixian.

The pseudoscience connection

In 1950, upon graduation from Tsinghua University, He Zuoxiu was personally picked by Yu Guangyuan to work with him to supervise China’s science circle. In the second half of 1990s, He was one of China’s top anti-pseudoscience fighters, focusing primarily on “pseudo-Qigong,” even though he was, and still is, a believer in Qigong, practicing it regularly at home. Since 2000, He has been Fang’s “best friend from different age,” supporting Fang’s every evildoing, including  founding an illegal fundation to raise money for Fang’s fight against the court in Wuhan. The image in the upper left shows He held a copy of his article which led to the suppression of Falun Gong 3 months after its publication; the image to the left shows Fang and He were playing Tai Chi, a form of Qigong.

The fact is, Fang knew the fact that CCP leadership made their decision to crackdown Falun Gong as early as April 28, 1998,[26] the official crackdown occurred more than a year later, on either June 10, 1999, when the spooky “610 Office” was established, with which Fang would be affiliating and receiving stipend for more than a decade; or July 20, 1999, when the crackdown was officially announced. There is no doubt whatsoever that Fang benefited handsomely from the inside information. As a matter of fact, when the first “anti-pseudoscience” movement in China started in 1995, Fang, as a graduate student in the department of biochemistry at Michigan State University, immediately stole an article from a professor at MSU to write his very first “philosophy of science” article titled “What is Science,” specifically corresponding to the movement in China.[27] Unfortunately for him, that movement was abruptly aborted after only a few months, so Fang had to wait 4 more years to get his second chance to join the rank of China’s Science Nazi.

Fang became the favorite son of the government after the crackdown. At his peak, Fang simultaneously held at least 4 columns in China’s major newspapers, and the reporters, especially those from tabloids, watched his move closely to find news leads. As a matter of fact, Fang bragged a few years ago that during the SARS pandemic in 2003, even though he was a subject should be quarantined after he fled Beijing to his hometown in Fujian, but the local officials dared not to enforce the law on him and his bossy wife.[28] In 2010, after Fang claimed that he was attacked in Beijing, leaving two or three wounds similar to mosquito bites in his back, two of the top government officials in the district where Fang lived had to pay him a visit to comfort him[29], and the case was ordered by Mr. Zhou Yongkang, one of Jiang Zemin’s top confidants, who succeeded Luo Gan in 2007 as the judicial Tsar in China, to be supervised directly by the Ministry of Public Security,[30] which means the task to solve the case became the top priority for the local police. Fang, a person well-known for his devoid of gratitude, was extremely grateful to Zhou: when he was disciplined in 2014, Fang expressed his resentment and anger at the authority on the internet.[31] Still wonder why Fang hates President Xi Jinping so much?

The secret agent

On August 30, 2010, Fang’s wife announced that Fang was attacked in broad daylight in Beijing. Later, Fang revealed more details, saying that two people first tried to numb him down with ether, then, while chasing him, tossed a hammer at him, which hit his back and caused three wounds. He later changed his story, reducing the wound number to two. At that time, under Zhou Yongkang’s utterly corrupted leadership, violent offence causing much severe damage won’t be guaranteed an investigation, but Fang’s attack immediately became a national top priority case. The above image, first released by the Justice Web, the very top website in China’s judicial system, shows Fang’s wounds (circled). The shadowy head of Mr. Zhou was added by me, suggesting Fang’s secret and close tie to him.

An evil’s “campaign”

Fang’s “campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China” mainly confined in three areas: the first one is promoting GMO food at any costs, which means any person who dares to express a tiny bit of doubt about the safeness of the genetically modified food would be attacked viciously by Fang with all his might. The very example is Fang’s years-long bloody fight against Mr. Cui Yongyuan, a national celebrity.[32] As mentioned above, Fang’s feud with Zhi’an Wang was also initiated from the same issue.

The second area of Fang’s “campaign in China” was attacking the people designated by his bosses such as Mr. Zhou Yongkang. In January, 2012, Fang launched a sudden attack on Mr. Han Han, a very influential writer and the most popular blogger in China based in Shanghai[33]. Briefly, Fang used his most conventional weaponries, such as unscrupulous rumormongering, ruthless smearing, organized group attacking, and endless harassing, to beat Mr. Han down, accusing him, without a thread of evidence, of using a ghost writer, namely his father, to write everything he had published.[34] Why would a “science writer” bother himself with a literary writer from a different generation? There have been many speculations, and the most credible one is that Fang was ordered by Zhou Yongkang to do so, because Zhou was afraid that Han’s tremendous popularity among Chinese youth was a serious threat to CCP’s leadership. Because Fang’s malicious intention toward Mr. Han was so obvious to everyone - he repeatedly and explicitly demanded that Mr. Han give up his writing career, or his nightmare would continue -, he became China’s public enemy number one by June, 2012, and he has never recovered from that fiasco - that’s why a tiny British GMO PR firm issued a scandalous “award” to him, obviously trying to salvage him from drowning in people’s mouth water.[35]

At the end of 2012, when the “Hanly War” was nothing but dead, Fang launched a sudden attack on Dr. Wu Danhong, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law. The weirdness of this “campaign” is that Dr. Wu was a member the extreme leftists on the internet, i. e. the notorious “wumao;” and just a few months earlier, he had been fighting on Fang’s side to attack Mr. Han. As a matter of fact, it was later widely rumored that Fang and Wu belonged to the same coup d'etat clique, headed by Bo Xilai, the King of the Red Capital at the time, and Zhou Yongkang.[36] So why did Fang turned upon one of his secret comrades? After Zhou Yongkang was downfall, Wu revealed the secret: just before Fang’s sudden attack, Mr. Zhou expressed his fury at Wu because one of his articles criticized the reform of China’s judicial system.[37] Obviously, Zhou took the criticism personally, and Fang was trying to release his boss’s anger, either voluntarily or being ordered to do so.

Partly because of his credit bankruptcy, partly because of the collapse of Jiang Zemin’s remnant forces, which is arguably the most corrupted group in China’s modern history, Fang lost a key internal fight in October, 2014, which resulted in the complete shutdown of his social media accounts in China. Fang, sensing the looming danger of being arrested, immediately fled China to America with his entire family,[38] moving in the house he purchased one year earlier, and living on the money he swindled in China.[39] Yes, for the past 8 years, Fang and his wife have had no real job and legitimate income. As a matter of fact, the couple hike in the wild every day, pretending to be botanists conducting a never-ending survey,[40] apparently because they have nothing else to do, besides tweeting.

The third area of Fang’s “campaign in China” was revenge on his personal enemies. In 2001, Fang learned that a person reported to Science magazine that he had just plagiarized one of their newly published articles.[41] Five years later, Fang finally found out that the whistleblower was Dr. Xiao Chuanguo, a neurosurgeon and a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. Fang didn’t waste a minute to launch his revenge “campaign” against Dr. Xiao by accusing him of CV fraud, and after that attempt failed miserably in a court in Wuhan, Fang leveled yet another allegation: Xiao’s major invention, a surgery procedure called “Somatic to Autonomic Intradural Nerve Anastomosis,” is not only ineffective and expensive, but also harmful to the patients.[42] The vicious “campaign” led to the world-shocking “Brawl in Beijing,”[43] and Fang hit the jackpot by being hit by a hammer: not only did he send his most hated enemy Dr. Xiao to jail, he also found a perfect excuse and timing to launch his previously planned “Personal Security Protection Fund,” the very machinery which sucked the six million Yuan in about 4 years. It was later found out, mainly by Zhi’an Wang, that the money collected by the “Personal Security Protection Fund” was not spent on Fang’s “Personal Security Protection” at all; rather, the money was mainly spent on Fang’s personal expenditures, from his mother’s funeral to the fight tickets of his family to the U. S. As a matter of fact, according to Wang, even the monthly salary of Fang’s maid in America, his sister-in-law, was paid by the fund.[44]

Besides the “Personal Security Protection Fund” in China, Fang has a fund in America also, which was created by him in 2006, soon after he was sued by Dr. Xiao. The fund, called “The Organization for Scientific & Academic Integrity in China,” has been serving Fang exclusively since its beginning, but it managed to get its federal tax-exempt status by cheating the IRS.[45]

Fang’s attack on Dr. Xiao has never ceased, even though it seems that Xiao has unilaterally stopped his fight against Fang. Just a few days ago, Fang called Dr. Xiao a murderer.[46] Why? Because Dr. Xiao expressed his support “for a common cause” and “the greater good,” protesting against China’s Zero-COVID policy,[47] the exact same reason for Fang’s being chosen by the Washington Post. Fang’s maniac hatred to Xiao, - he said publicly that his hatred to Xiao won’t be dissolved even if Xiao is shot to death,[48] – is only understandable to most people when they know the following fact: since 2001, more than 120 plagiarisms committed by Fang have been identified and documented.[49] In other words, the “science writer” relies almost completely on stealing for his science writing. And it was Dr. Xiao who started the chain reaction of digging up Fang’s most shameful personal history by reporting the very first identified plagiarism case to Science magazine, which, just two months earlier, published an article promoting Fang.[50] Although the magazine didn’t reveal the author’s true identity, we now know she was a high ranked official from Xinhua News Agency, the same agency Fang’s wife worked till 2014.

Unprecedented and unparalleled literary thief in human history

Since Dr. Xiao reported Fang’s plagiarism to Science magazine in 2001, more than 120 plagiarism cases committed by Fang have been identified and exhaustively documented. In addition, it has been found that more than two thousand scientific and artistic images on the internet, many of them were and still are under the protection of copyright laws, have been stolen by Fang and used in his books, without any acknowledgement. The Database of Fang’s Plagiarism was built in 2010, and maintained since then by me. Fang has never made a single comment on it, despite its wide publicity.

The American victims

Although Fang attacks mainly Chinese people, however, occasionally, white American could be his targets. For example, in 2010, Dr. Kenneth Peters, a urologist at the Beaumont Hospital in Detroit, was harassed and reported to the U. S. government by a group of Chinese internet thugs organized and directed by Fang, because he was, at that time, conducting a federally-funded experimental trial to verify Xiao’s procedure, which, as mentioned above, had already been convicted by Fang as a fraud, without any experiment.[51] One year later, when being interviewed by a reporter from the People’s Daily of China, Dr. Peters was still shaken by the “horror movie-like” experience, calling Fang’s thugs “cyber terrorists”[52].

In the same year Dr. Peters fell victim to Fang’s “campaign,” Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein, a professor at Michigan State University, was accused by Fang of practicing pseudoscience. Why would Fang attack a professor in his alma mater? Because the professor was the author who wrote the article stolen by Fang in 1995, and in October, 2010, I reported my discovery to MSU[27]. Although MSU finally decided not to investigate the case, citing technicalities, my report nevertheless convinced Dr. Root-Bernstein, so he asked Fang’s apology in a group email -then, as expected, came Fang’s retaliatory “campaign.”[53]

In 2014, Fang launched yet another sudden attack on an American professor, Professor Jeffrey Beall of University of Colorado, an internationally renowned expert on the open access publishing industry.[54] So what was Beall’s crime? His crime was his identification of MDPI, a Swiss open access publishing company, as one of the “Questionable Publishers.”[55] Why was that a crime? Because the owner of that “Questionable Publisher” was Dr. Lin Shu-kun, who happens to be one of Fang’s biggest donors - since 2006, he had most likely “contributed” hundreds of thousands dollars to Fang’s pocket.[56] As a matter of fact, before being listed as a “Questionable Publisher”, Lin had claimed proudly that he was able, and willing, to raise Fang’s entire family by himself, alone.[57] In other words, Prof. Beall committed a serious crime against Fang’s Laws by touching Fang’s cheese. Yes, Fang not only has his own laws, he considers his laws higher than all the other laws in the world.[58]

The American victims of the Chinese Fraudulent Fraud Fighter Fang

From left: Dr. ken Peters of Beaumont Hospital; Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein of Michigan State University; Prof. Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado.

The conclusion

Of course, the frauds and crimes committed by Fang and his followers, I call them “Transcontinental Criminal and Cyber-Terrorist Organization,” in the past two decades in both China and America are too many to be told completely here, but fortunately, many of them have been well documented.[2] The question is, again, why would a reputable newspaper, like The Washington Post, rely upon such an individual, - Foreign Policy magazine called him “sometimes dubious…… muckraker” in 2014,[59] -, for any kind of information, and based his information to form their “opinion”? The most plausible answer to the question I can think of is that the “opinion” had already been formed a priori, and the “Opinion Staff” did feel they needed some evidential support to make their opinion look “common” and “greater good,” and Fang fit their requirement perfectly. It seems that they didn’t know that Fang would deliberately manufacture vicious rumors against China, then sell them to western media[60]. May I ask the “Staff” if you had verified any of Fang’s information before using them? I am sure the answer would be a big NO, because I know for sure that even Fang himself doesn’t know where his information, or misinformation, came from - they were fed to him from various anonymous sources, most of them with political motives. Just a few days ago, Fang announced that he had blocked 144,782 twitter users since he started tweeting in 2014.[61] The number of being blocked is likely higher than the number of his true followers, because Fang admits that many of his current followers are fake accounts, “added” by someone else.[62]

The question is: why does Fang want to block so many people? The answer to the question is: because he literally makes a fool of himself on daily basis by posting wrongful messages, and anyone who dares to point out his mistakes would be blocked by him immediately, no question asked. In other words, Fang knowingly posts fake information, and his rumormongering career depends almost completely on the “private messages” sent to him from those anonymous sources - his job is to pick among them what he likes the most, just like the “Staff” did with Fang’s posts. That’s exactly why he cried his heart out when the private message box on his twitter account stopped working.[63] After all, anti-China propaganda is not only politically correct in this country, it is also very profitable,[64] so Fang is always able to find his customers for his fake products, even with his infamy. The problem to the western media is, though, with a deteriorating credibility and reputation, how far, or how low, could you go?

P. S.

Of course you can brush off everything I have written, saying something, just like the British journal Nature did, you are unable to verify any of the stories I told. I’m invalidating this excuse in advance by copying this letter to Fang, and you should be able to watch with you own eyes the response from the famed fraud fighter. With two legal funds in his wallet and more than enough legal professionals behind him, Fang has absolutely no reason whatsoever not to refute my allegations point by point, or sue me in the court of law. The only thing preventing him from doing either will be: he is unable to find a loophole in this letter, or in the literatures I cited. I can guarantee you that Fang will never find his guts to refute me or sue me, because playing dumb and playing death have been his response to my documentation of his evildoings for the last 15 years, since 2007. As a matter of fact, the essence of his strategy was revealed by him in 2004, when he was at his peak:

“Playing dumb and death is actually the last strategy used by all the fraudsters when their frauds are exposed.”[65]

So, there is only one excuse left to you to disbelieve me, which is: “I just don’t want to believe you.” Well, the choice is yours to make, and no matter what it is, the evidence I presented here will outlive all of us, including Fang.

Sincerely yours,

Xin Ge, Ph. D.

Columbia, SC 29223

Notes

[1] See Fang’s following posts: 8:09 AM · May 8, 2015, 5:07 AM · May 10, 2015, 10:34 PM · May 24, 2019; 11:42 AM · Jul 19, 2019.

[2] See my serial Open Letter to journal Nature and other related articles on China Academic Integrity Review, for example the following:

Part 15: An Unprecedented Professional Literary Thief;
Part 16: The Science Case;
Part 17: The Nature-Science Case;
Part 18: The Harvard Case (I);
Part 19: The Harvard Case (II);
Part 20: The Longevity Case;
Part 21: The Naked Mole-Rat Case;
Part 22: The Ubiquity Case;
Part 23: The Bt Corn Case;
Part 24: The U. S. President Case;
Part 25: The Michigan State University Case.

[3] Fang admitted himself on January 29, 2020:  “When the news of the new pneumonia outbreak just came out, I said on Twitter: There is no need for everyone to be panic, and it is not recommended that everyone wear a mask in public.”（See: XYS20200202. Note: XYS is the Chinese Pinyin abbreviation of Fang’s blog called New Threads.）

[4] For example, on Nov. 18, 2020, Fang tweeted: “Denmark's large-scale randomized controlled clinical trial on wearing masks to prevent new crown infection finally found an academic journal that dared to publish its results, and the results were indeed ineffective. 6,000 people were randomly divided into two groups for a two-month experiment. The infection rate of the group who went out to maintain a social distance and wore a surgical mask was 1.8%, and the infection rate of the control group who went out to maintain a social distance was 2.1%, which was not statistically significant. This is currently the only clinical trial on masks and new crown infection.” (See: 5:15 PM · Nov 18, 2020.)

[5] For example, on Apr. 29, 2020, Fang tweeted: “‘Mr. Science’ is really shameless, citing South Korea's research on the effectiveness of masks on the prevention of the spread of coronavirus, but not saying that the experimental results show that masks are ineffective, misleading its readers into thinking that it is actually effective, the result is only due to small samples.” (See: 6:01 PM · Apr 29, 2020.)

[6] In total, Fang has called China “The Mask Country” dozens of times, staring from this one: 9:26 PM · Jan 28, 2020. The last time Fang used the term was July 4, 2022, when he cursed China by saying the pandemic in China will never end (疫情永远结束不了的罩国). (See: 3:25 PM · Jul 4, 2022.)

[7] For example: 12:15 AM · Mar 19, 2020, 8:07 PM · Apr 3, 2020, 8:17 PM · Dec 29, 2020, 1:42 AM · Aug 30, 2021.

[8] See Wang’s twitter: 1:20 AM · Mar 29, 2020.

 [9] The detailed story was told in my article (in Chinese): 《方舟子2013年十大要闻：五、抢旗砸碗，逼反志安》(Top Ten News about Fang Zhouzi in 2013: 5. Grabbing the flag and smashing the bowl, forcing Zhi'an Wang to Rebel.)

[10] See my serial Open Letter to journal Nature:

Part 28: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (III): Who Is Albert Yuan the Nominator?
Part 29: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (IV): Why Did Albert Yuan Nominate Fang by Lying?
Part 30: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (V): Why Was Albert Yuan Invited to Nominate Fang?

[11] For how the scam worked, see my book (in Chinese): 《方舟子三百万诈骗案纪实》(Fang Zhouzi’s 3 Million Yuan Scam.) The relevant information in English could be found in the following articles:

Fang Zhouzi, He Zuoxiu, Lin Shu-kun and the Secret of Their Scienafia Empire;
Comment on the GlobalPost Report "The Chinese president’s favorite blogger hates America";
The Slanderous and Scandalous John Maddox Prize Winner Fang Zhouzi Is Pursued;
The Fraudulent and Criminal John Maddox Prize Winner Fang Zhouzi Commits Perjury, Again!;
The Greedy and Greasy John Maddox Prize Winner Fang Zhouzi Is Dunned.

[12] For information about the lawsuit in China, see the article by Wang: 《刘宇起诉彭剑诈骗捐款案二审纪实》(Documental Report on the second instance court trial of Liu Yu vs. Peng Jian, regarding the donation Fraud); for information about the lawsuit in America, see: Robert Kahn. Fraud. courthousenews.com, December 20, 2018; Anonymous. Wang vs Fang, unicourt.com, last updated from San Diego County Superior Courts on 06/02/2021.

[13] See Wang’s twitter: 9:24 AM · Nov 16, 2022.

[14] See Fang’s twitter: 5:15 PM · Nov 16, 2022.

[15] This is what Fang tweeted in 2017: “Men with high IQs (above 111) had a 31% higher risk of having a child with autism than men with average IQs. I already had an intuition about this (because I know that several scientists with high IQs have sons with autism, such as Watson and Gould), my wife was a little worried when she was pregnant, and I was relieved when I learned that it was a daughter (the boys have significantly higher risks of autism than girls).” (See: 1:27 AM · May 16, 2017.)

[16] The term骗子(piàn zi) can be translated, depending on the context, into any of the following English words: liar, fraud, cheater, swindler, impostor, trickster, faker, mountebank, scalawag, etc.

[17] See: How The Washington Post Fact Checker tracked Trump? washingtonpost.com, Jan. 23, 2021.

[18] See Fang’s poems “Re-Read Lu Xun” (《再读鲁迅》) and “The Final Prediction” (《最后的预言》), written in 1989 when he decided to leave China for America to escape from the disaster.

[19] “我把圣地亚哥当成第二故乡，一块栖息地，一个避难所。北京则是战场。”（See: 2:54 PM · May 7, 2015. Originally posted on Oct. 13, 2013.）

[20] “24年前我发誓过，我信守了诺言，然后被赶走。‘总有一天我终将归来，不管以什么方式，因为在我的内心深处可悲地无可奈何地深爱着这个多灾多难一点也不可爱的民族。’”(See Fang’s twitter: 1:10 PM · Oct 22, 2014.)

[21] There is way too much information about this individual in Chinese, but too little in English. Here are something I have written about him in my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 32: The Fangangsters (II): He Zuoxiu, a Shameless Party Man (I)
Part 34: The Fangangsters (IV): He Zuoxiu, a Shameless Party Man (II)
Part 35: The Fangangsters (V): He Zuoxiu, a Shameless Party Man (III)

[22] For details, see my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 31: The Fangangsters (I): Yu Guangyuan, the God Father.

Also, see my ongoing series (in Chinese): 《科邪教父于光远》(Yu Guangyuan, the God Father of the SciCult.)

[23] See: 《声援何祚庥院士批判法轮功宣言（征集签名）》(Declaration of Supporting Academician He Zuoxiu's Criticism of Falun Gong (Call for signatures)), posted by Fang on New Threads on May 30, 1999, 50 days before the official crackdown.

[24] For more information about this person, see my article (in Chinese): 《邓子贤：方舟科邪教的头号打手——方舟子的1999“四人帮”（之一）》(Zixian Deng: The No. One Hitman of Fang Shimin’s Scicult.)

[25] See New Threads:

A Letter to Washington Post, on Falun Gong;  

A Letter to Washington Post, on Falun Gong;

A Letter to the New York Times, on Falun Gong.

[26] See Fang’s post: 1998-04-28 03:35:26.

[27] See my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 25: The Michigan State University Case.

Also:

A Brief History of Fang Zhouzi’s Plagiarism of His Professor Dr. Root-Bernstein.

[28] See the transcript of Fang’s “lecture” to his SciCult given on Jan. 29, 2020: 《从萨斯到新型肺炎：恐慌中的理性》(From SARS to COVID-19: Rationality in Panic.)

[29] The news was first revealed by Fang to a tabloid reporter on Sept. 3, 2010. See: 《方舟子：我又不是娱乐明星，有必要炒作吗？》(Fang Zhouzi: I'm not a showbiz star, why do I need to hype it?).

[30] See the article by Yan Hong (深圳严宏), who is affiliated with Shenzhen TV: 《“锤子教授”肖传国的“部督大案”，背后竟是“大老虎”？》(The " Major Case Directly Supervised by the Ministry" involving the "Hammer Professor" Xiao Chuanguo: The "Big Tiger" behind the Scene?), weibo.com, Aug. 14, 2014.

[31] See my article in Chinese: 《方舟子2014年十大要闻：二、溷兮龟来，螃蟹蛤蟆》(Top Ten News about Fang Zhouzi in 2014: 2. The Tortoise, the Crab, the Toad.)

[32] Chris Luo. China's raging GM food debate leads to libel suit between fraud-buster, TV anchorman. scmp.com, Jan, 14, 2014; Anonymous. Both Cui Yongyuan and Fang Zhouzi fined for online debate over GM food. en.people.cn, June 26, 2015.

[33] Evan Osnos. The Han Dynasty. The New Yorker, July 4, 2011.

[34] See my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 40: The Hanly War (I)
Part 41: The Hanly War (II): Fang’s Water Army (I): Introduction
Part 42: The Hanly War (III): Fang’s Water Army (II)
Part 43: The Hanly War (IV): The Rumormonger
Part 44: The Hanly War (V): The Incriminator
Part 45: The Hanly War (VI): The Intimidator
Part 46: The Hanly War (VII): The Pseudoscholar
Part 47: The Hanly War (VIII): The Genuine Quack
Part 48: The Hanly War (IX): Drowning in the Ocean of Scandals: The Plagiarism

[35] See my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 26: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (I): David Cyranoski’s “Brawl in Beijing” Is a Fraudulent and Malicious News Report
Part 27: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (II): Albert Yuan’s Nomination Is Filled with Lies and Malice
Part 28: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (III): Who Is Albert Yuan the Nominator?
Part 29: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (IV): Why Did Albert Yuan Nominate Fang by Lying?
Part 30: Why Was Fang Shi-min Awarded the John Maddox Prize? (V): Why Was Albert Yuan Invited to Nominate Fang?

[36] See, for example, 《中南海两大动作释放敏感信号 》(The two major moves of Zhongnanhai send sensitive signals),《薄熙来周永康政变组阁名单 如今几人在?》(The list of coup cabinet  members of Bo Xilai and Zhou Yongkang: Where are they now?)

[37] See Wu’s article, 《周永康的震怒与司法改革》(Zhou Yongkang's Wrath and Judicial Reform), news.sina.com.cn, July 29, 2014.

[38] See my letter to GlobalPost: Comment on the GlobalPost Report "The Chinese president’s favorite blogger hates America"; my open letter to University of Washington: Fang Zhouzi’s Seminar at the University of Washington.

[39] See Wang’s serial posts on sina.com, starting from this one: 《方舟子律师彭剑贪污安保资金证据之一》(The first evidence showing that Fang Zhouzi's lawyer Peng Jian embezzled security fund) and this one: 《我的答辩词》(my defense.) Please note that Wang’s social media accounts were eliminated a few years ago, but some of his posts have been saved by WaybackMachine.

[40] See Fang’s daily posts on twitter.

[41] See my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 16: The Science Case.

[42] The entire history of Fang’s retaliation has been documented in my book in Chinese: 《方舟子陷害肖传国始末》(The Feud between Fang Zhouzi and Xiao Chuanguo.) For information in English, see the following articles:

The facts that Dr. Xiao Chuanguo is a victim of long term character assassination and framing by Fang Zhouzi and his gangsters;

Open letter in support of Chuan-Guo Xiao, M.D. from the International Academic Community;

Nature Asian-Pacific Correspondent David Cyranoski’s “Brawl in Beijing” Is a Fraudulent and Malicious News Report.

[43] David Cyranoski. 2010. Brawl in Beijing. Nature 467:511. Note: the Nature report is seriously biased. See my comment on the report: Nature Asian-Pacific Correspondent David Cyranoski’s “Brawl in Beijing” Is a Fraudulent and Malicious News Report.

[44] See Wang’s post on sina.com:《方舟子“安保车”再揭秘——方舟子联手彭剑诈骗安保资金花絮五弹》(The second revelation of the secret about Fang Zhouzi's "Security Protection Vehicle"—Fang Zhouzi teamed up with Peng Jian to defraud the Security Protection Fund.)

[45] See my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 49: The Fangangsters (X): The Organization for Scientific & Academic Integrity in China is Shimin Fang’s Money Machine;
Part 50: The Fangangsters (XI): OSAIC Falsified Their Tax-exempt Application with IRS.

Also:

A Letter to the Florida Department of State.

[46] See Fang’s twitter: 12:43 AM · Nov 28, 2022.

[47] Xiao’s relevant message, posted on weibo.com on Nov. 27, 2022, has been deleted. The screenshot of the post, though, is preserved by Fang in his above tweet.

[48] See my article: 《美国联邦政府雇员高小红伙同中国科邪教头子方舟子在2010年造谣陷害肖传国及其家人》(Gao Xiaohong, an employee of the US federal government, and Fang Zhouzi, the head of China’s SciCult, join hands to monger rumors to frame Xiao Chuanguo and his family in 2010.)

[49] See: The Database of Fang Zhouzi’s Plagiarism; 《方舟子抄袭剽窃年谱》（Chronicle and Demonstration of Fang Zhouzi’s Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement.）

[50] Xiong Lei. 2001. Biochemist Wages Online War against Ethical Lapses. Science 293:1039.

[51] For detailed story about harassment of Dr. Peters by Fang’s thugs, see the chapter 7 of my book: 《方舟子陷害肖传国始末》(The Feud between Fang Zhouzi and Xiao Chuanguo.)

[52] Face to face interview with Dr. K. Peters in Detroit in July, 2011.

[53] Dr. Root-Bernstein made that request in a group e-mail, which was soon leaked to the public in China. Before Fang made his counter-accusation, he tried to appease Dr. Root-Bernstein by private communications. Fang’s followers, all anonymous, tried their best to force Dr. Root-Bernstein to retract his request, but failed. For details, see the following:

An Open Letter to Shi-Min Fang from Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein;

Fang Zhouzi's reply to Dr. Root-Bernstein and Dr. Root-Bernstein's response to Fang;

The second exchange between Fang Zhouzi and Dr. Root-Bernstein;

Dr. Zachary Burton, Fang Zhouzi's Ph.D. adviser: "Support for Dr. Shi-min Fang";

Dr. Xin Ge: A few comments on Dr. Zachary Burton’s “Support for Dr. Shi-min Fang”;

Dr. Root-Bernstein: Reply to Aimee Cluo (21 August 2011);

Dr. Root-Bernstein: Reply to Aimee Cluo (24 August 2011);

Dr. Root-Bernstein: Reply to Wu (22 August 2011).

[54] Declan Butler. 2013. Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing. Nature 495:433-435.

[55] Jeffrey Beall: Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers;

Jeffrey Beall: Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper.

[56] The estimate is based on Lin’s public promise made in 2006 that he would contribute $500 per month to Fang’s “fraud Fighting Fund.” Lin’s contributions never showed up on the website of the fund, except for the first one, yet Fang seems never mad at him. On the contrary, he showed extraordinary care for Lin, while most Fang’s followers on his New Threads despised him, because of his fraudulent and stupid nature. For detail, see my article: 《方舟子2014年十大要闻：六、洗钱敲诈，犯罪违法》(Top Ten News about Fang Zhouzi in 2014: 6. Laundering Money, Blackmailing, Committing Crimes, and Breaking the Laws). Also see my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 33: The Fangangsters (III): Shu-Kun Lin and His Predatory MDPI Journals;
Part 36: The Fangangsters (VI): Shu-Kun Lin and His Predatory MDPI Journals (II);
Part 37: The Fangangsters (VII): Shu-Kun Lin and His Predatory MDPI Journals (III);
Part 38: The Fangangsters (VIII): Shu-Kun Lin and His Predatory MDPI Journals (IV): His Path to Fame and Wealth.

[57] Lin’s letter to me, March 4, 2012.

[58] See my Open Letter to Nature:

Part 11: Fang’s Law;
Part 12: Fang’s Law-II.

[59] Ning Hui and David Wertime. Is This the New Face of China's Silent Majority?. Foreign Policy, Oct. 21, 2014.

[60] See my article: How Does Fang Shimin The Rumormonger Monger a Rumor? ——An Open Letter to New York Post.

[61] See Fang’s twitter: 9:57 PM · Dec 2, 2022.

[62] See Fang’s twitter: 5:55 PM · Nov 26, 2022, 5:48 PM · Dec 6, 2022.

[63] “Twitter is finished. The private message group from non-following users disappeared, and all the private messages in it disappeared. I can't change the private message settings, so that others can't send me private messages. After a few hours it will log out and ask to log back in.” (See Fang’s twitter: 1:47 AM · Dec 4, 2022.)

[64] Tom Fowdy. The cynical hypocrisy of the world’s No1 propagandist: US pledges $300mn to fund massive global anti-China media machine. rt.com, 26 Apr, 2021

[65] “装聋作哑其实是一切造假者在事情败露后的最后一招。” (See: XYS20040911)