Footnotes and Scare Quotes

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Hate to let one source get so much play time, but it’s just such a perfect example, administration quotes and all.  https://youtu.be/pAqh7GG9cHc

  In response to an article I posted here previously ( https://escipub.com/Articles/IRJPH/IRJPH-2021-08-1005.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3kHdPDrgIgXDgebZDAF_xfKB9oMdeF9yzNaGeeRyRr8gUO-4CTUfX9TQk ), more than one friend responded with links to compendiums of studies in support of the efficacy of masks. For example, this one:  Do face masks work? Here are 49 scientific studies that explain why they do | KXAN Austin   I committed to reading the first ten from this collection to learn more and to make sure I wasn’t just plugging my ears and closing my eyes. Here are my impressions of those 10 (which actually turned out to be over 20, since I had to follow the deeper links to finally get to the raw data). This is not to say my opinion is the be-all-end-all, but I do consider myself to be a considerate, science-loving, non-moron and as such feel the need to explain how someone can oppose universal masking while also being those things: Study 1.) This was a summary of about a dozen handpicke...

I enjoyed this interview that popped up on my drive home today. I appreciated the in-depth analysis of an issue that is so cartoonishly described by most media and politicians. Little grinds my gears as much as a widely-accepted cartoonish portrayal of takeaways from “The Science.”  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hold-these-truths-with-dan-crenshaw/id1498149200?i=1000534740486