Curriculaum Vitae
Everything you need to know about Wang is in this CV helpfully posted by his current employer, Duke - though pretty sure Linfa wrote it himself (a couple of typos Linfa- but otherwise excellent). His journey from East China Normal University to the New Global Normal Universe - it’s all there.
I’d love to say i had a network of deepthroats for sources - but it’s not like that. Often enough - the best stuff is on the subject's own website - or in puff-piece interviews they give to enabling media platforms. Vanity is their great undoing. Making their own publicity - fervently believing it, preaching it …
Thereby leaving a trail of incrimination. Thanks!
CURICULLUM VITAE (sic)
Linfa (Lin-Fa) Wang
EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2012.7-present: Director and Professor, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
1990-2015: CSIRO, (Commonwealth Science & Industrial Research Organisation).
including:
2008-2015: Science Leader, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
January 1982-1986: B.S. (Honour) Biology (Biochemistry), East China Normal University
June, 1986 - 1989: Ph.D. Biochemistry (Molecular Biology), University of California, Davis
1981-1982: Linfa won Outstanding Undergraduate Award, East China Normal University, top notch uni in a country of 1.3 billion. Then a scholarship to UC Davis. So, unlike Farrar or Daszak for instance, Linfa is genuinely smart - as a geneticist at least. Pretty smart at keeping in the shadows as well.
Funnily enough, as a brilliant young student, he didn’t want to study biology:
Science: As a child growing up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, Wang would listen to Mao Zedong's speeches through a loudspeaker in kindergarten. "I was thinking: ‘My God … how does his voice transfer from Beijing to Shanghai?'" Electrical engineering became his passion.
Inspired to study electrical-engineering by listening to Mao speeches on the public brainwashing system. Thinking My God… not at the content of the speeches (give him a break - he was only 5 or 6), but the incredibleness of live broadcasting - simultaneously transmitting a message to one billion people.
I bet Linfa would have been brilliant at electrical-engineering - but that’s not quite how it works in the CCP universe.
He’d been identified as super-smart - his guardians had a field in mind for him deemed a higher priority: Biochemistry
Science: But after getting into the prestigious East China Normal University, Wang was dismayed when the faculty assigned him to study biology.
Linfa: I thought, ‘I don't like plants, I don't like animals.' Going to a renowned university felt like going to heaven but the wrong door of heaven, basically, because I went to a biology department.
The wrong door. Is that what happened. The world, through the agency of Linfa, had a sliding doors moment - where we took the wrong one?
Science: Secretly listening to Voice of America, Wang eventually became so proficient at English that he was chosen for a scholarship to study abroad. Science is writing this as a puff-piece for Linfa - which is funny - coz i’m reading it as evidence of someone groomed from childhood by the CCP, inserted into UC Davis, then CSIRO Australia.