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.
Pro-mask crusader Prof Trish Greenhalgh recently plumbed new depths of distortion and misinformation in her mission to force humankind to hide their faces behind strips of cloth or plastic, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
"By the latter half of 2022 it seemed we had turned a corner on masks," writes Jill Evans. "Only a deviant minority persisted with wearing them. But as we enter a new year, this return to sanity is under threat."
NHS mask mandates are arbitrary, depending more on where you happen to live than any actual science. Yet they don't seem to be going away, writes Paul Stevens.
A couple in Plymouth lost their cafe and were fined £42,000 for refusing to comply with Covid restrictions in November 2020. The fine has been reduced to £14,000, but if they can’t pay they face jail. Can you help?
Clinical trials of masks in various settings have failed to show any effect. Which tallies with everyone’s personal experience of mask 'protection'. So, why the sudden reintroduction, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
In retrospect, it’s doubtful if the degree of state coercion deployed to increase vaccine uptake would have been possible without the ground having first been prepared with lockdowns and masks, writes Ramesh Thakur.
In our supposedly liberal and transparent democratic country, it seems that it was a group of remote and unnamed scientists, outside of SAGE, who effectively imposed masks on British citizens, writes Dr Gary Sidley.
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence still appears to believe in all the contradictory delusions from 2020 that led him to play the role of America's lockdowner-in-chief.
The Government's requirement that schoolchildren wear face masks in the classroom was based on political calculation not evidence, new official documents released under Freedom of Information reveal.
