Cochrane’s Race to the Bottom
In 2020, the Cochrane Collaboration delayed its review of face masks and NPIs for six months while pushing out on-message rapid reviews based on low quality evidence. It still won't admit it was wrong.
Tag: Randomised controlled trial
If You Thought Covid Vaccines Were Effective Against Serious Disease and Death, Think Again, Says Public Health Expert
Many assume that Covid vaccines saved millions of lives. However, public health expert Prof Eyal Shahar shows that once you correct for the 'healthy vaccinee' bias, vaccine effectiveness against death is around zero.
Scientists Against Science: RCTs Which Give the Wrong Answer on Masks Are “the Worst Way to Answer the Question”
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.
New Study Claims to Show Vitamin D Doesn’t Help Against Covid. Here’s What They Did Wrong
There's a mountain of evidence that vitamin D helps combat COVID-19, but a new randomised controlled trial claims to find it doesn't work. Here's what they did wrong.
Bangladesh Mask Study Results Are Consistent With No Effect
The Bangladesh mask study has been much touted by proponents of mask mandates. But a new critique shows the data are consistent with the intervention having had zero casual impact on the outcome variables.
