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The only thing I saw was a single hyperlink to a study about a parenting/early childhood intervention in 1980s Jamaica and the effect on long-run economic gains. Really unclear how that is evidence of the potential educational harms of masking.
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Yeh that seems to be pretty much it. No educational experts quoted, no studies cited, it seems that the "harms" are entirely speculative
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I think the best way to resolve both the benefits & harms of masking kids in school is to study BOTH via RCT, as the author has suggested on Twitter. That way, we (hopefully) would be able to do a cost-benefit analysis using data.
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That is a fair point, but not what he says in the article. He claims the harms are "firmly established" - that's strong language from an EBM expert.
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Exactly. Ridiculous sourcing. The harms are complete conjecture
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it's like jazz
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The headline and tweet say there is a downside then at the end of the essay he says we need to investigate whether there is one. So he clearly meant ‘potential downside’ but that doesn’t grant so many RTs.
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Sorry, but no, he clearly aimed to mislead. Maybe even himself? "potential harms are ... much more firmly established"? What does that mean? In his mind? and how in hell can "potential harms" be "much more firmly established" than the "potential benefit" of *decreased infections*
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