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Oreskes is also big on climate change. I sense a pattern.

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I canceled my long standing subscription 2 years ago.

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As you pointed out in this article, the real harm comes when we get hit by the next pandemic. Who do we believe?

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Good question, Curt. The research to confirm something I read takes me down a rabbit hole until I'm so confused I don't know which way is up. A clue on who to trust is who attacks them and do they suffer for their stand but don't waiver. Still looking for an honest man

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“There were limitations on how many references we could fit into the SciAm article,” Ungrin emailed me. If limitations were limited, wouldn't that mean they used only the very best references to prove masks work against viruses? Would hate to see the ones not used.

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Yes, good point. Also, what's the limit, exactly? They used hyperlinks. I get you don't want to hyperlink each word, but there's plenty of room to insert more hyperlinks into that essay. I doubt SciAm set a hard limit on the number of citations. Normally, it's the more, the merrier.

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It seems to be quite a pattern in the science world.

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Scientific American is the equivalent of a liberal tabloid magazine for academic pseudoscience.

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Great work Paul, and nicely presented.

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