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Rant: That viral 'CDC says masks don't work' article from last week is missing three key studies

I read that piece claiming masks are useless and compared it to the actual CDC data. It cited one 2020 Danish study but left out the 2023 meta-analysis of 12 trials showing masks cut transmission by 53% in healthcare settings. Has anyone else noticed how they cherry-pick the smallest sample sizes?

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simon_jackson81•2d ago

That viral 'NASA found a hidden city in Antarctica' article is complete garbage

I saw this thing shared on Facebook by my aunt last week and decided to actually look into it. The article claims satellite images from 2019 show a massive underground complex under the ice near the Shackleton Range. But I pulled up the original source they cited, which was a blog post from 2016 about pareidolia in terrain patterns. The 'city' is just natural rock formations and ice crevasses. The article also says 'NASA scientists confirmed it' but there is no NASA press release or study anywhere. I checked NASA's own image archive for that region and it matches exactly what you'd expect: ice, rock, and shadows. Has anyone else seen this thing floating around and actually taken five minutes to debunk it?

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Rant: That viral 'CDC says masks don't work' article from last week is missing three key studies

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