[ChefboyOG]

"Reasonable" is doing a lot of work there.

There were and are plenty of scientists critical of the CDC. Immediately after officials lied about masks being ineffective, prominent scientists voiced harsh criticisms. They were not harangued for being anti-science or conspiracy theorists.

On the other hand, people who fundamentally did not grasp what mRNA is, or who believed that COVID caused no more deaths than a flu, or who touted "medicines" that had no demonstrated efficacy—they were deservedly criticized. Unfortunately, the criticism wasn't enough to prevent many of them from making quite a bit of money peddling their beliefs.

[tlogan]

Can you please share an US based study which shows that mask mandates are effective? I’m really puzzled but that part.

[ChefboyOG]

I can understand why you're puzzled, as my comment was not about mask mandates.

But in the spirit of helping, roughly 6 seconds of Googling in regards to your question turned up this https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072

[GeekyBear]

>They were not harangued for being anti-science or conspiracy theorists.

This is not the least bit true.

There was a PBS interview with one of the scientists on President Biden's Covid advisory council who spoke up about how disappointed he was with his colleagues in public health who would not speak out against the mob on the efficacy of cloth face masks to protect against an airborne virus.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...

[tlogan]

The problem here is that CDC did not want to acknowledge they might be wrong. Even a slight suggestion asking that we concduct a study (at least parse data from Californa and Florida) is considered as “conspiracy”.

we need to get humble scientists: the ones which do science with the goal to find the truth but not one which just want to be right and have too much pride admitting wrong.