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[–]Inspector_Monkfish 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For me it’s almost entirely a question of efficacy. However the social costs shouldn’t be dismissed.

There is so much propaganda flying around these days on both sides of any point that it actually takes effort to work out where to plant your flag. And most of us don’t have the time, even if we had the inclination. And so we drown in a sea of bull shit.

Check this article about face masks from 2015. Likely to be more impartial than anything more recent.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/

On a more abstract level, I find that I just don’t trust our decision makers these days. There seem to be very few out there today that will draw their own conclusions rather than be safe and tow the party line (that generally seems to be based on what is most safe to say or most popular, facts be damned).

Oh and the word expert has been so devalued by the media that it should be redefined as “here is an opinion from someone else who agrees with me”

Look up the “Replication crisis” in science to get a sense of the calibre of our experts. Wiki link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis