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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
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.
Masks make no clear difference against viral infections, according to the latest gold standard review of trial data from Cochrane that examines the results of 78 randomised controlled trials.
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