{"id":22375,"date":"2023-02-18T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2023-02-18T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:04:06","slug":"best-title-of-the-month-approximately-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/best-title-of-the-month-approximately-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Title of the Month – Approximately Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the title of this article in City Journal<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s about a report that came out on a study done by the Cochrane Collaboration which is described thus:<\/p>\n

“The gold standard for medical evidence is the randomized clinical trial, and the gold standard for analyzing this evidence is Cochrane (formerly the Cochrane Collaboration), the world\u2019s largest and most respected organization for evaluating health interventions. Funded by the National Institutes of Health and other nations\u2019 health agencies, it\u2019s an international network of reviewers, based in London, that has partnerships with the WHO and Wikipedia. Medical journals have hailed it for being<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe best single resource for methodologic research\u201d and for\u00a0being<\/a> \u201crecognized worldwide as the highest standard in evidence-based healthcare.\u201d”<\/strong><\/p>\n

And here comes the result:<\/p>\n

“We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero. The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither surgical masks nor N95 masks have been shown to make a difference in reducing the spread of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

But now the bad news:<\/p>\n

“This verdict ought to be the death knell for mask mandates, but that would require the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the rest of the public-health establishment to forsake \u201cthe science\u201d\u2014and unfortunately, these leaders and their acolytes in the media seem as determined as ever to ignore actual science. Before the pandemic, clinical trials repeatedly showed<\/a>\u00a0little or no benefit from wearing masks in preventing the spread of respiratory illnesses like flu and colds. That was why, in their pre-2020\u00a0plans<\/a> for dealing with a viral pandemic, the World Health Organization, the CDC, and other national public-health agencies did not recommend masking the public. But once Covid-19 arrived, magical thinking prevailed. Officials ignored the previous findings and plans, instead touting crude and easily debunked studies purporting to show that masks worked.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

So there you go.\u00a0 None of this is news.\u00a0 But now we see that “science” is just a magical incantation the Left uses to get their followers to raise their banner and start marching.\u00a0 Maybe it’ll be good for starting fights with crazy relatives at holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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