An important and long-overdue study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal on December 2nd titled, âChild mask mandates for COVID-19: a systematic review.â The six authors, including the indefatigable Tracey Beth Høeg, who has been in the fight right from the start, carefully reviewed a whopping 597 available studies on the efficacy of face masks for kids.
The authors found a lot of problems with the studies. A large minority of studies appeared to have obvious bias, and clearly violated scientific norms while trying to force a desired result. None of the 597 studies were randomly-controlled trials, which in fairness might be hard to arrange. Finally, the researchers discovered that government masking recommendations were entirely based on âmechanistic and observational dataâ â not solid scientific evidence â and no systematic review of the evidence has ever been published.
Until now.
The authors boiled down the 597 studies into the top 22 best-quality ones. Among those 22 studies, sixteen found no correlation between mask wearing and lower infection rates. In other words: masking kids doesnât work. The remaining six studies showed a âcritical risk of bias.â Worse, two of the biased studies only found a mask benefit by making simple math errors. The cited benefits disappeared after the studiesâ own data was re-analyzed.
Thanks, âexperts.â (Ex-spurts.)
So, back when all those âexpertâ doctors and scientists were gravely informing school boards they should âfollow the scienceâ and mask the kids, those so-called experts were talking out of their aft blowholes. In other words, the experts lied. They werenât thinking. They were just mouthpieces for government agencies that werenât following the science. And a lot of kids were hurt. Maybe millions.
It only took three years to straighten out the mess the experts made, but we finally got here.
I linked the new mask study above, but hereâs a printable PDF version.
The authors found a lot of problems with the studies. A large minority of studies appeared to have obvious bias, and clearly violated scientific norms while trying to force a desired result. None of the 597 studies were randomly-controlled trials, which in fairness might be hard to arrange. Finally, the researchers discovered that government masking recommendations were entirely based on âmechanistic and observational dataâ â not solid scientific evidence â and no systematic review of the evidence has ever been published.
Until now.
The authors boiled down the 597 studies into the top 22 best-quality ones. Among those 22 studies, sixteen found no correlation between mask wearing and lower infection rates. In other words: masking kids doesnât work. The remaining six studies showed a âcritical risk of bias.â Worse, two of the biased studies only found a mask benefit by making simple math errors. The cited benefits disappeared after the studiesâ own data was re-analyzed.
Thanks, âexperts.â (Ex-spurts.)
So, back when all those âexpertâ doctors and scientists were gravely informing school boards they should âfollow the scienceâ and mask the kids, those so-called experts were talking out of their aft blowholes. In other words, the experts lied. They werenât thinking. They were just mouthpieces for government agencies that werenât following the science. And a lot of kids were hurt. Maybe millions.
It only took three years to straighten out the mess the experts made, but we finally got here.
I linked the new mask study above, but hereâs a printable PDF version.
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