Cochrane issues apology over language in mask effectiveness review

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How the Cochrane Review went wrong. Report questioning COVID masks blows up, prompts apology

While the editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library said it was ‘inaccurate’ to say they’d said masks don’t work, experts aren’t sure that’s going to clarify things.

www.thestar.com

I haven't laughed at Cochrane this hard since the time someone wrote a case study on one of their retractions.

A Case Study of a Retracted Systematic Review on Interactive Health Communication Applications: Impact on Media, Scientists, and Patients

In October 2004, a flawed systematic review entitled “Interactive Health Communication Applications for People with Chronic Disease” was published in the Cochrane Library, accompanied by several press releases in which authors warned ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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