Cochrane Reviews has issued an editor's statement about the mask-wearing paper that has been getting so much attention lately.
Below, the statement, in which they both endeavor to clarify the implications of the study and take responsibility for the poor initial job of public communication.
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@ct_bergstrom A large part of the problem is that evidence-based medicine builds in type of default thinking: interventions are presumed harmful until a RCT proves them beneficial. It's similar to what Sander Greenland calls "Nullism" but ramped up even further.
https://intemittdefault.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/evidence-decisions-and-default-reasoning/
