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Cochrane Fact-Checked with Absurd Results

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / March 13, 2023 / Masks / 14 minute read

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Considering how this seriously flawed article is now apparently used to suppress the dissemination of an important scientific paper, to press the Cochrane editor-in-chief into making false claims about the objective of the paper and downplay its results, and to censor a review of the findings by an important mainstream newspaper, there is clearly an urgent need to act strongly against the so called “fact-checking” industry.

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Cochrane Ends the Masking Rage

Beny Spira / March 9, 2023 / Masks / 8 minute read

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Even before the pandemic, the best available evidence – randomized controlled trials – already showed that masks are ineffective in containing respiratory viral transmission. Additional RCTs conducted during the pandemic support this conclusion. Therefore, the best available evidence does not support even the recommendation of wearing masks, let alone making them compulsory.

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Tomás Pueyo Returns: The MBA Who Shut Down Europe on Masks and the Cochrane Review

Michael Senger / March 2, 2023 / Law, Masks, Policy / 8 minute read

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To this day, it remains unclear where Pueyo got the ideas for virus containment for his 2020 articles. To some degree, Pueyo’s ideas mirrored those of major lockdown proponents like Imperial College Professor Neil Ferguson—architect of the wildly-inaccurate COVID models that instigated lockdowns across the free world—who’d already endorsed global lockdown measures. Yet outside of a niche epidemiology community, these ideas were far from well-known. For the most part, it wasn’t until Pueyo’s articles that these ideas for strict virus containment measures reached the mainstream.

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On the Mask Study: An Interview with the Author

Maryanne Demasi / February 28, 2023 / Masks / 8 minute read

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There’s no evidence that they do work. It’s possible they could work in some settings….we’d know if we’d done trials. All you needed was for Tedros [from WHO] to declare it’s a pandemic and they could have randomised half of the United Kingdom, or half of Italy, to masks and the other half to no masks. But they didn’t. Instead, they ran around like headless chickens.

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Masks Did Not Do Nothing; They Wrought Havoc

Laura Dodsworth / February 24, 2023 / Masks / 2 minute read

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The behavioural scientists deliberately exploited the human desire to conform and literally said out loud that the public would ‘do the heavy lifting’ and enforce masks using social pressure. This was the case: if you refused to wear a mask, people stared or even shouted. Twitter shouted #WearADamnMask. Venues denied entry. GPs refused medical appointments to the unmasked.

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Mask Mandates in Healthcare Facilities are the Evilest of them All

Aaron Hertzberg / February 24, 2023 / Masks / 21 minute read

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Mask requirements for healthcare facilities continue to be sustained in the face of an unrelenting flurry of fatal knockout blows struck by study after study finding that, as a purely scientific matter, masks of any kind are wholly inutile amulets bereft of any discernible impact on the transmission or epidemiology of respiratory viruses.

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The Freedom Not to Wear a Mask

John Tamny / February 23, 2023 / Masks / 5 minute read

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The simple truth is that the one-size-fits-all approach didn’t protect us from the virus as much as it blinded us to its reality; one that only could have been arrived at via freedom. We didn’t need medical studies, and the reality is that still we don’t need medical studies. What we needed and need is freedom. With the latter once again comes knowledge from different people doing different things, and all of us learning from their successes and failures.

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Unmask the Audiences Already!

Robert Blumen / February 15, 2023 / Masks, Society / 12 minute read

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People no longer have an emotional connection while speaking when wearing masks. And we can no longer understand each other’s speech. A venue full of masked people is a place lacking in humanity. It is an artificial world based on virtue-signaling and the elevation of appearance over reality, rather than actual human connection.

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The Masking Debate Is Settled

Robert Malone / February 2, 2023 / Masks / 4 minute read

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This large group of international researchers reviewed dozens of rigorously correct, randomized clinical trials of “physical interventions” against respiratory diseases. These diseases included influenza and COVID-19 during the pandemic, and these researchers failed to find even a “modest effect” on infection or illness rates from any type of mask.

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Why N95s Fail to Stop the Spread

Megan Mansell / January 24, 2023 / Masks / 18 minute read

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By examining the hypothetical best-case scenario, we can better predict if a given measure will have a mitigating impact on the identified hazard. For N95s versus output, particle- to- PFU ratios, and MID for SARS-CoV-2, best-case scenario of hypothetical perfect capture of matter that these apparatuses are neither designed nor approved to capture shows them to still be non-mitigating for this hazard, and recommendations for their use should be immediately reconsidered.

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Biden Administration Still Pushing for Forced Masking

Ian Miller / January 22, 2023 / Masks / 4 minute read

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The CDC creates terrible, poorly conducted research and studies claiming to show masks work. Judges defer to their research to avoid deciding scientific questions, leading them to side with the CDC. Despite the CDC’s demonstrable ineffectiveness and incompetence.

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The Righteous Certitude of the Disease Mitigators

Leslie Manookian / December 20, 2022 / Masks, Society / 13 minute read

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It is precisely because so many are ignorant to the threats we face and the methods of those without scruples that those of us who remain in possession of our moral code must stand and resist the dystopian vision of the world THEY are trying to foist on us.

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