And Yonas may be one of the luckiest researchers in the Corona crisis, as his story began when he published a scientific research late last year in a scientific journal, and one of the results he reached in this research was that the risk of corona on children is very small, and that it is rare for a case to reach A child infected with corona to the point of danger.
And Yonas expected that his research would be met with a lot of welcome, as it would remove the worried parents and the fear that their children would be infected with the virus in light of this pandemic that afflicted everyone, but what Yonas faced was the exact opposite, as he was surprised by a wave of great rejection and hostility in social media. , which claims that he is a false researcher and that by his research he is endangering the sons and daughters of people.
The hate campaigns did not end on social media, but they exceeded them to hate messages that reach him at his home, and then a campaign to collect signatures against him began to file a case against him for committing crimes against humanity. Then, three lawsuits were filed against him in three consecutive months, accusing him of lying and fraud in his scientific research.
What researcher Yonas faced was unbearable, so he announced amid the hate campaigns against him that he would completely stay away from any research related to the Corona virus, but people did not stop attacking him.
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The court that recently acquitted him stated that his scientific research had been carried out according to the correct research controls, and that there was no circumvention in it. However, Yonas says that his exposure to this trial is very influential, as one of the most important qualities of the scientific researcher is to have integrity, and what happened was striking in his integrity. and its credibility directly.
Even after his acquittal, Yonas says that he will never return to any research related to Corona, saying that the harm he faced was completely intolerable, and it never occurred to him that he would face all that hatred and hostility because of scientific research.
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