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A roundup on masks - by Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan - Trust the Evidence     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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A roundup on masks - by Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan - Trust the Evidence
https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/a-roundup-on-masks

You can hunt anything you want, animals, insects and, latterly, human beings, especially scientists. This happened to us and to Tom in the August columns of the New York Times (NYT), as we reported here, here and here.

The main problem appears to have been that the columnist took exception to the idea that the Cochrane Review A122 failed to find any better quality evidence of mask effectiveness, and of course, she proceeded to try to shoot the messenger.

Ever since her article, however, some of the background to her intervention has come to light, and Tom has written back to the NYT pointing out some of the consequences of their irresponsible behaviour:

"Opinion Editor
The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
212-556-1922
[email protected]

Dear Ms Kingsbury, thank you for your reply dated 18 March to my complaint dated 15 March 2023.

Matters are not what you reported, although I understand your willingness to defend your columnist.

Dr Tufekci seems to have forgotten to make clear that she has been lobbying CDC and maybe other organisations for over 3 vears to impose mask mandates, although she has no scientitic expertise in this matter. This happened after a somersault from her initial position against use of masks (she is in very good company in such a change of course in March 2020). Elsewhere she described creating a new symbolism around the use of masks, a clearly ideological standpoint which has naught to do with science.

Dr Tufekci now publicly claims that she has corrected Cochrane (although it was hard work it took her almost a month). She has done no such thing, as no edits have been made to the review text.

You and Dr Tufekci state that the Plain Language Summary of the review may have helped people
misinterpret the revIew.

Possible corrections, addenda and edits in science (and in the Cochrane Library) are handled through the editorial peer review mechanism, not through the columns of a daily. It seems to me that by insisting on corrections and claiming "victory" the New York Times through its columnist is trying to subvert not just Cochrane but the whole scientific process, while launching a personal attack on me, one of the twelve authors. Her attack on our review and on me can perhaps be explained in her own words: "The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, not muzzling speech itself. As a result they don’t look much like the old forms of censorship at all. They look like viral or coordinated harassment campaigns, which harness the dynamics of viral outrage to impose an unbearable and disproportionate cost on the act of speaking out.

I ask you to look again in detail at the personal agenda of your columnist and ask yourself if subversion of the scientific process through unqualified comments is the aim of the New York Times. Finally I note that your mission is to "seek the truth and help people understand the world*.

I do not think this is possible it you hold an ideological view
https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/

I believe that given the facts you owe me at least a right of reply.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Yours.

Professor Tom Jeffterson
Senior Associate tor
University of Oxford
Oxford OX2 6GG”
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The Irony of Twitter - by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson      (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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The Irony of Twitter - by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson
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Oxford’s Bodleian Library archives @carlheneghan because of its ‘lasting research value.’
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The Story of Influenza Antivirals: Part 2 - The Emergence of Tamiflu     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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Here comes the Bird F Word..... - Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, Trust The Evidence     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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Here comes the Bird F Word..... - Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, Trust The Evidence https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/and-here-comes-the-bird-f-word
The UKHSA says it's turning to “bird flu” models given the recent outbreaks, and as we said, we’d review what the models from 2005 reported.
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A Million a day - by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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A Million a day - by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson
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Have you ever wondered where all the Covid money went? 900 consultants charged £1,000 daily to deliver the test and trace service.
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More Masks and Censorship by FaceBook - Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson | Trust the Evidence     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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Government advisers: time to move on? - Trust The Evidence     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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The Covid truth from Japan - Trust the Evidence     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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The Covid truth from Japan - Trust the Evidence
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On 19 January, there were 96,392 new cases and 451 new deaths, the highest daily recorded. We assume “active” means exactly that: people who have active disease and are capable of infecting their contacts and assume also that deaths are in SARS-CoV-2 positive people and the agents have contributed substantially to the demise.

Given this increase, why has the Japanese government relaxed travel restrictions and mask mandates?

It looks like the Prime minister has had enough as Japan faces its eighth covid wave: a return to normality might be on the cards. The PM announced downgrading the legal status of Sars-CoV-2 to the equivalent of seasonal influenza.
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Masks again, again and again. - by Tom Jefferson (Trust the Evidence - The Story of mask evidence, barriers, distancing, hygiene, etc.)     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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Masks again, again and again. - by Tom Jefferson (Trust the Evidence - The Story of mask evidence, barriers, distancing, hygiene, etc.) https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/masks-again-again-and-again
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Masks - again - by Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan - Trust The Evidence https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/masks-again
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Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses - Jefferson, T - 2020 | Cochrane Library
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/content?templateType=full&urlTitle=/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub5&doi=10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub5&type=cdsr&contentLanguage=
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Face masks are NOT a good protective measure against Covid says leading professor
https://www.gbnews.uk/health/face-masks-are-not-a-good-protective-measure-against-covid-says-leading-professor/417276
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Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence. - Swiss Policy Research
https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
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COVID-19 mitigation measures in primary schools and association with infection and school staff wellbeing: An observational survey linked with routine data in Wales, UK | PLOS ONE (Published: February 28, 2022)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0264023
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COVID-19 Facemasks & Marine Plastic Pollution - OCEANS ASIA
https://oceansasia.org/covid-19-facemasks/
Estimated 1.56 billion face masks will have entered oceans in 2020 - OceansAsia Report For Immediate Release: December 7, 2020
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Is everyone dying of statin starvation? (The government continues to ignore the causes of excess mortality.) - Trust The Evidence     (trusttheevidence.substack.com)
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