"If we ignore high-quality evidence, we arrive at the conclusion we want." Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson say that the Royal Society lockdown report authors appear to fully understand the politics.
Do masks work? According to an article in STAT, "randomised controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question". That's just because they gave the wrong answer, says Dr Roger Watson.
Responding to a GB News interview with Dr Tom Jefferson, UKHSA claims that the evidence shows masks work. But that conflicts not only with the findings of the Cochrane Review but also with its own published evidence.
By insisting on corrections to the Cochrane review of masks and claiming “victory” the New York Times is trying to subvert the whole scientific process while launching a personal attack on one of the authors.
The recent Cochrane review finding masks "probably make little or no difference" sent the mask zealots into a spin. But it seems no evidence will ever persuade them to renounce their faith in the filthy rags.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson has fact-checked the fact checker whose work is being used to discredit the Cochrane review on masking which concluded there's no high-quality evidence that face masks reduce the spread of COVID-19.
John Tierney has written an excellent article in City Journal summarising the latest Cochrane review showing masks do "approximately zero" against Covid. But the U.S. has no intention of following this science.
Advocates of mask mandates during the pandemic have suppressed the inconvenient truth about face masks: that they achieve no appreciable reduction in viral transmission, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
The evidence that masks do nothing to stop transmission of COVID-19 is now overwhelming. Why, then, is an NHS mental health trust reiterating its demands for patients to wear masks?
Masks have no clear effect on the transmission of respiratory viruses. That's the conclusion of a major review of 78 RCTs led by Dr. Tom Jefferson. Oxford's Dr. Carl Heneghan interviews him about these striking findings.
