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Can you Exercise Too Much/ Shredding Trust in Public Health

Sensible Medicine

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Is There a Randomized Study That Shows Masks Work?

There is no, there was no randomized data that showed that masks work. You run a randomized study because you're equilibrating outcome distributions in the absence of therapeutic effect. If you only look at people who did it one way or not the other, those are not random. It's just unscientific. A scientist will look at that and say, what don't we know? And what do we have really good data to support? Well, I, there are a lot of scientists who do, but they're just not. The problem is there's only like 10 of us true scientists, but let me. We were also inundated with articles and observational studies from the CDC

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