Another Inaccurate Study on Masks Will Contribute to Permanent Masking

Despite years of evidence proving otherwise, masks simply won't go away.

School districts across the United States are returning to masking policies, and a number of cities have also issued strong recommendations for residents to wear masks.

Years of evidence-free claims from experts and politicians have created a permanent class of people unable to end their obsessive commitment to pseudoscience.

For a society with a substantial number of adults already suffering from rapidly diminishing mental health, masks, for some, were the final straw.

One such example is a recent New York Times article examining the remaining holdouts who refuse to rejoin normal life.

Unsurprisingly, they include doctors, individuals who mask inside homes, and a couple who seemingly would only be photographed wearing industrial respirators.

Bitsy Cherry, right, and Nathanael Nerode wearing industrial face masks at their home in Ithaca, N.Y. (Credit…Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times)

Naturally, recent research also concluded that “higher quality” masks make no difference to the spread of infections.

New Study Disproves Expert Messaging on 'High Quality' Masks

The continuation of these policies, and those who endlessly follow them, highlight the importance of accuracy in science communication.

Unfortunately, thanks to media priorities and poor quality research, the proliferation of mask misinformation continues.

One such example of purposefully misleading pro-mask activism was published earlier this year. And naturally, it got plenty of attention despite being entirely ridiculous.