The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference. This verdict ought to be the death knell for mask mandates, but that would require the public health establishment to forsake “the science”—and unfortunately, them and their acolytes in the media seem as determined as ever to ignore actual science.

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Can you smell a fart in a mask? You can also smell in the COVID.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The article seems to misrepresent the study:

Authors' conclusions

The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions.

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There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low to moderate certainty of evidence means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited, and that the true effect may be different from the observed estimate of the effect. [...]

The study author's conclusion goes on to say, after all those qualifications, that they didn't see a difference, then goes right into say we need a real study to find out.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Too bad there won't be one because that's misinformation.