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Here's a good summary by Cochrane from 2020: "There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low‐moderate certainty of the evidence means our confidence in the effect es…

Source? A RCT from 2019 found "no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza" between N95 and medical masks. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31479137…

"The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year [2020], with the total rising to as many as 150 million by…

YouTube's definition of COVID-19 misinformation: "Medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO)" [1] January 2020: WHO …

Could you share a few authors that offer worthwhile analyses on this subject?

Those are really valuable resources, thank you! Although France's electricity mix is exceptionally low, I'm surprised to see that the EU average (438gCO₂eq/kWh) is even higher than…

"The disabled community doesn’t want to drive gas-burning cars while everyone else zips around in zero-emission vehicles" I do not understand this craze for EVs. The German Fraunho…

Did you read my comment?

Have a look at Google Cloud Platform's ToS: "Benchmarking. Customer may conduct benchmark tests of the Services (each a "Test"). Customer may only publicly disclose the results of …

The author's argument is based on the assumption that taking aspirin results "in around one death per 10,000 people". The cited study [1] does not say that. Those results are speci…

Again, your argumentation is problematic and therefore hard to argue with. Your first point depicts a fictional anecdote that tries to prove that terminally-ill patients with a pos…

Please have a look at your argumentation: - "I don't think this is true" - "And AFAIK most countries do actually [...]" - "In other words, this is a common myth [...]" You present …

You're right, it is the same flawed assumption. Both approaches lead to problematic conclusions, both should face scrutiny. Unfortunately, we mostly see one-sided criticism. Edit: …

You're right, they should have written a short summary of the content and not make us research it ourselves. I wouldn't use "there's no Wikipedia on him" as an argument. Karikó's e…

Where do you see the "crackpot claims" in this situation? He/she just stated that "inclusive discussion is being suppressed", showing a recently removed YT video. For anyone who ca…

Instead of looking up the original video (e.g. by using the watch id), you immediately write it off as "crackpot claims" because some unknown authority at YouTube removed it, citin…

" all the nuclear waste generated by the world since the invention of nuclear energy can fit into a single Highschool auditorium" Source?

You’re right, they completely differ from each other (regarding their relevance) and should therefore face an adjusted amount of scrutiny. If you’re one of the top pharmaceutical c…

BioNTech/Pfizer published a press release regarding 94% efficacy in November 2020 (1 month before publishing any study) and it too landed on the front page: https://news.ycombinato…

Thank you for your explanation!

I have one question regarding the current Pfizer data (it would be great if anyone with experience in statistics could help out): UK healthcare professionals received this informat…