Posted 12:37pm UK time
Recently, a long-awaited Danish study on the use of face masks was published, and it didn’t include much in the way of good news for the politicians who have made the usage of such coverings compulsory. However it seems these scientific results, which came out of a randomised control trial, have not been allowed on Facebook without a warning label attached. Professor Carl Heneghan tweeted this yesterday:
This is what happens when people, especially those working for social media companies, are given the power to curb ‘misinformation’ about a disease and the politics around it. Whilst those who advocate the need to prevent ‘misinformation’ dress this up as an attempt to stop conspiracy theorists, in reality it leads to similar situations as that including Professor Heneghan and the article he wrote on the study. Science does not flourish by attempting to shut out perfectly decent debate.