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- A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/risk-compensation-debunked-masks-rapid-tests-vaccines-safety.html 325 comments
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- The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ 163 comments
- Surgeon General Urges the Public to Stop Buying Face Masks - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-face-masks.html?0p19g=3248 77 comments
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847818305941 42 comments
- Birx cautions masks shouldn’t give people ‘false sense of security’ | The Hill https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490939-birx-cautions-masks-shouldnt-give-people-false-sense-of-security 23 comments
- Quarantine Fatigue Is Real. Shaming People Won't Help. - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/quarantine-fatigue-real-and-shaming-people-wont-help/611482/ 16 comments
- Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis - The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext 13 comments
- Slate’s Use of Your Data http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html 8 comments
- Risk compensation and face mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic | Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82574-w 4 comments
- Here’s Why Vaccinated People Still Need to Wear a Mask - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/health/covid-vaccine-mask.html 1 comment
- Giant penguins: Why is life today so small? https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/penguin-giant-millipede-beaver-fossils-paleontology.html 1 comment
- https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 0 comments
- The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh | Innovations for Poverty Action https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-masking-covid-19-cluster-randomized-trial-bangladesh 0 comments
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