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Covid 19 Affect on climbing? 9-Jul-2021 At 9:17:23 AM gordoste

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On 7-Jul-2021 E. Wells wrote:
>Please do slap yourself hard in the head for not specifying which of the
>studies offends you.

Here is a thorough debunking of his article https://davidkylejohnson.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/a-complete-debunking-of-denis-rancourts-argument-that-masks-dont-work/

If you read both, and then decide, I have no problem. If you only go looking for things that support your already-formed view, you're cherrypicking. All I did was type into google "Why was denis rancourt's paper removed" and I found the debunking. If you didn't do that, don't pretend you have an open mind.

And, after reading both, I don't agree with Mr. Rancourt. Here is a review of masks written by medical experts. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

That's not to say that the medical science community is always right - for example, here's a story by one of the co-authors of the paper above, explaining how drastically wrong the medical community got it on airborne transmission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html

But guess what ... the scientists changed their mind on that. When they change their mind on masks (or Ivermectin), I'll change mine too.