Calling the Post a "liberal shill" tells us all we need to know about you. also, here are 70 studies demonstrating that masks work. (Period.) You're just in denial:https://threader.app/thread/1279144399897866248 …
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None of them are RCTs- which are the standard for science knowledge and application. anecdotal evidence doesn’t ‘prove’ anything. Understanding respiratory physiology, droplet formation, and viral spread of disease tells me what I need to know.
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You're clearly not a scientist.
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RCTs are the gold standard, yes.
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HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that, when RCTs are either impractical or unethical (e.g., an RCT of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children, which would leave the control group vulnerable to vaccine-preventable disease), we can’t still make strong conclusions from other study designs.
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We make strong inferences like this quite frequently using epidemiology. It’s how, for instance, we know that smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease and that vaccines do not cause autism.
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Those same ‘strong conclusions’ you are citing for the application of masks can also be made regarding other variables that weren’t controlled. RCTs prove the other things you mention- thus my point.
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This describes Lee.https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1320055335932121090 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhDVerified account @gorskonReplying to @gorskon @keithlaw and 3 othersOf course, methodolatry is also a science denier tactic, in this case, the disingenuous appeal to the absence of RCTs about a question used as a propaganda tactic to argue that we can’t make conclusions about the question based on other forms of investigation,1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Your opinion of me doesn’t matter. Again, my understanding of resp physiology, immune function, and droplet formation as it relates to viral spread of resp illness describes me better. But nice of you to resort to character insults- very ‘professional’ of you
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I see nothing in your feed to indicate that you are an infectious disease expert or epidemiologist with relevant qualifications to mount a scientifically credible challenge to the current consensus on #COVID19. This thread is for you.https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1320052957107376128 …
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