Boston School Masking Study is an Embarrassment to Science

More poor quality evidence presented to support a political agenda

As pandemic restrictions are finally falling by the wayside, a group of committed activists steadfastly refuse to move on.

They’ve unfortunately realized that there is a tremendous amount of media attention and exposure to be gained by continuing to push for masks.

As such, they follow the same playbook time and time again.

They presume their conclusions will be accepted as fact, thus they create low quality “evidence” to justify their predetermined directives.

The latest example of their discrediting behavior has achieved exactly what the activists have sought — endless media coverage.

Unfortunately these activists were joined in their efforts by the New England Journal of Medicine, which lent credibility to a study that most definitely and inarguably does not deserve it.

But since their study has received so much adoration from a fawning press, it’s crucial to thoroughly debunk their agenda.

And there are many, many things to debunk.

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Testing Differences Create Different Results

There are numerous, granular level details that the researchers got wrong, but we can see another clearly identifiable manipulation of the data.

The study attempted to determine if removing mask mandate policies in school districts in Massachusetts resulted in different outcomes.

In essence, they took the school districts that lifted mandates and compared them to those that kept mandates in place. They then claimed their results showed that masking led to decreased rates of COVID spread.

Except they ignored one extremely important policy difference.