Yet another illustration of how incredibly stupid The Science has become.
I love few things as much as writing about how dumb The Science is, and today I have a nearly paradigmatic example for you.
There has been a lot of research on high-efficiency particulate air (or HEPA) filters. Most of this research shows that they are very good at removing small particles from the air, which is unsurprising because that it was what they are designed to do. During the pandemic, a whole world of people used this research to promote HEPA filters and insist they would save us from Covid. If we just installed these things everywhere, we could go about our lives as before. Like the masketeers, the filtrationists failed to consider that there is a very wide gulf between theory and practice. Many, many health interventions, which ought to work for very theoretically sound reasons, fail to do anything in the real world. This is why we have things like observational studies and randomised controlled trials to determine whether remedies that sound like they should work actually do work. You’d think the filtrationists would have bothered to show at literally any point that their favourite solution would stop Covid, but until recently none of them bothered with such trifling details.
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