After Throwing Scientists Under the Bus for a Media Smearing, Cochrane Backtracks on Mask Review Statement

Republished from the Disinformation Chronicle - with permission

Editor Karla Soares-Weiser has still not explained her unprofessional collusion with social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci, who falsely claimed she "corrected" the Cochrane mask review.

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PAUL D. THACKER JUN 10, 2024 substack.com/@disinformationchronicle

Over a year after social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci pressured Cochrane Editor Karla Soares-Weiser to put out a statement that smeared researchers and undermined Cochrane’s review that found masks have little benefit in stopping the spread of viruses, Soares Weiser released a second statement on Friday that announced she would not be making changes to the mask review.

Soares-Weiser’s reversal comes after Tufekci wrote a misleading March 2023 New York Times essay that disparaged the Cochrane mask review and falsely claimed she had “corrected” it.  Bouncing off Tufekci’s spurious Times essay, author Laurie Garrett posted on X that the Cochrane authors were “bozos” who had confessed to “fraud.”

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