Omg I am LOVING this story TL:DR - it is not a study, published in a journal dedicated to unusual hypotheses, and not really "from a major university" 1/n https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1383218165165936643 …
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7/n The WHO document referenced here was updated December 2020 and now completely contradicts both this assertion and indeed the entire paperpic.twitter.com/34kpeqBKzr
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8/n So, I think it's fair to say that this opinion piece probably doesn't represent either a scientific study or even really evidence per se, and it gets a lot wrong about both masks and COVID-19 How did it get published?
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9/n Well, the journal itself gives us a hint The description alone of Medical Hypotheses is pretty interesting stuffpic.twitter.com/VtaKiEWHii
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10/n Reading some previous work published by the paper gives you an idea of what kind of "novel, radical" ideas which "would be rejected" elsewhere they sometimes put outpic.twitter.com/kPWt8bV0hN
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11/n (In the journal's defense, they do also put out lots of less fringe hypotheses, they appear to take seriously the idea of giving everyone's ideas a forum for discussion)
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12/n As to the Stanford connection? Well, the author appears to be a physical therapist at a hospital near Stanford that has an affiliation for teaching purposes with the universitypic.twitter.com/XentFPtpUH
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13/n We can split hairs, but I'm not sure this qualifies as saying that the study is produced by Stanford
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14/n Anyway, regardless of what you think about masks, the paper has numerous errors and is probably not a useful resource for determining whether to use them or not
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15/n None of this has stopped anyone citing the "study" as evidence of anything, of course, because no one checks the facts of things they agree with!
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This one is so easy to falsify, it's a real wonder people still make the claim
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