It turns out that the story is even worse that initial reports.
The short version:
- Lead author Tom Jefferson is a right wing hack who has been espousing junk science for years, and has been paid by the Brownstone institute, which is in turned funded by right wing billionaire and child labor enthusiast Jeffrey Tucker.
- Another author, John Conly, an anti-mask activists who has claimed that N-95s don't work and cause zits.
- Another author, Carl Heneghan was so toxic that his name was relegated to the acknowledgements.
- Elevating the randomized control trial over fully understanding and modeling the phenomenon. (It's called engineering, bitches)
It's well worth the read.
The takeaway here is that meta studies, such those which are the only thing that Cochrane does, far from being a, "Gold standard," of science, are a petri dish for confirmation bias and bad science.
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