The Symposium

Jim Steintrager, who served as UC Academic Senate chair at the time of the symposium last year, said such cases could raise questions about research integrity, and more systemwide guidance on how to handle them could be helpful.

Xi Jinping told participants at the symposium that their companies needed to innovate, grow and remain confident despite China's economic challenges, which he described as "temporary" and "localised".

The problem with the symposium starts with its main organizer.

The date of the symposium, by the way, is the anniversary of the signing of the Great Barrington Declaration.

On the evidence, neither the university nor its medical school, which is a sponsor of the symposium, exercised any judgment at all before greenlighting an embarrassing gala for the pandemic fringe.