Cochrane issues apology over language in mask effectiveness review

Started by rowsdower88 Mar 13, 2023

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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.

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

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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 the public of ...

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