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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Cochrane Review of Masking Research

Derek Thompson: The lab leak is neither a fact nor a myth. He says we need to be better at reporting on uncertainty, especially when there is a political or ideological undertow pulling us to one side of that story. Today's guests are Dan Engber, science writer and editor at The Atlantic; Jason Abiluk, Yale economist who has conducted some of the more famous trials of masking.

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