I just put out a new article on the Cochrane update, which surprised everyone by revealing… what everyone with a functioning brain should have already know for the past three years.
That being said - I wanted to (again, because I’ve tweeted it a couple of times) bring everyone’s attention to an astonishingly frank, no-holds-barred interview by Tom Jefferson MD, one of the lead authors on the Cochrane mask update. In it, he talks about his derision for how “activists” have befouled the discussion on masks and NPIs, and the outside, bordering-on-censorious pressure his team was faced with for simply doing what Cochrane has always done in it’s 30 year career - describing the data:
Apparently, not enough functioning brains out there.