Mask Attack: USA TODAY’s Epic COVID Fail versus Principia Scientific Intl
USA TODAY launch a ham-fisted assault on Principia Scientific International (PSI) a UK registered non-profit with a STEM membership in the thousands.
The spat is about the scientific facts behind mask wearing and the credibility of ‘fact checkers‘ doing the checking.
The gambit immediately goes awry for the internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that is the flagship publication of its owner, Gannett.
In any debate as nuanced as that about efficacy of mask wearing outside the clinical settings where the science is fairly established but mired with complexities and unintended consequences extrapolated among the general population, you would anticipate flawless credentials from your fact checking team.
However, USA TODAY’s preferred ‘fact checker’ team in this instance is NOT as impeccable as you would expect in a debate of such grave import where countless millions of lives may be at stake.
What we uncover is that America’s top middle market newspaper relies on ‘fact checkers’ more adept at blogging about gaming, sex and fetishes than boring virology or epidemiology.
We can only assume the author’s research would have thrown up this bone of contention. Perhaps not, if your goal is propaganda rather than truth. Despite Big Media hemorrhaging followers USA TODAY is still ranked first by circulation on the list of newspapers in the United States.
On the other side of the coin, 60,000 readers of Principia Scientific know that real scientists have spent the entire pandemic being ignored, defamed and de-platformed by the mainstream press for pointing out the half-truths and downright fallacies.
As we now see, things go quickly downhill for this once mighty American daily, still with a weekly print circulation of 726,906, a digital only subscriber base of 504,000 and an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million.
As the story that got PSI into such hot water with USA TODAY showed, even the World Health Organisation’s own top medical experts have flip-flopped on stating whether masks do or don’t work against viruses.
Undaunted by the realities, ‘journalist’ Madeleine Ngo starts her hit piece by immediately sending into the fray her choice experts – the subjective, opinionated Media Bias/Fact Check (MB/FC) and site owner, Dave Van Zandt.
Is ‘Doctor Dave’ a renowned professor? A microbiologist perhaps? Has he published in all the top medical periodicals?
No, Dave Van Zandt is a fraud and leads a team of faceless nonentities – self-styled, wannabe ‘fact checkers’ more at home flipping burgers at Wendy’s than calibrating lab pipettes and petri dishes.
But USA TODAY needs this issue swiftly made settled science to fit their preconceived narrative of fear porn. They want us all masked up and damn the unintended consequences, such as bacterial infections from dirty masks to hypercapnia, hypoxia, etc.
Or, USA TODAY could do actual journalism and cover the real story here: government medics and scientists routinely flip-flop when the political winds change. For instance, a week ago: ‘Wear Two Masks’ said Biden’s top expert Dr Fauci. Now Fauci says it ‘Won’t Make A Difference.’
We are the merchants of doubt and it riles the msm. Independent experts are now having real traction outside of the shackles of mainstream propaganda. It is becoming unmanageable as lockdown protests and mask refusers proliferate while legacy media hacks flounder flogging a dead pandemic horse.
Ms Ngo could, of course, have sought real experts at the top of her piece, but Ngo knows her target audience too well – the brainwashed, the gullible and the misinformed. These folks are easily led.
Driven by dishonesty, Madeleine Ngo and USA TODAY are culpable because they omit to tell their supplicants that Dave’s basement-dwelling team are comprised of:
A gamer.
A leftist, Trump-hating, feminist professor who specializes in “fat studies.”
A sex-and-fetish blogger.
A health-industry worker.
We know this because WND exposed this far-left gang of misfits in February 2017 in the hilarious ‘Phony baloney: The 9 fakest fake-news checkers.’
But so many mainstream ‘journalists’ are averse to doing research – or fact checking ‘fact checkers.’
Ace reporter, Madeleine Ngo, with all the alacrity of a house brick makes her winning pitch to prove we are no match for her Dave’s crew.
“In a statement to USA TODAY, Principia Scientific International CEO John O’Sullivan cited a quote from Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program.
“There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any particular benefit. In fact, there is some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” Ryan said at a news conference March 30.”
To further help level the playing field we cite an important study into cloth mask use to prevent infection. Masks actually increase your risk if worn improperly, says the US surgeon general. The surgeon general also tweeted that masks “are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.”
I wrote last August on how Two Top Oxford Medical Experts Agree: ‘No Evidence’ Masks Work.
Admittedly, I don’t know about their sexual fetishes or how they perform as gamers, but we have our own big hitters to show masks are neither effective or safe. We asked a neurosurgeon, while another surgeon also destroyed a common mask myth here.
Ngo could also look into the recent mask study conducted in Denmark epitomizing widespread failures to engage with science that does not fit the prevailing masks-as-a-panacea narrative.
So, there you have it in a nutshell: in this battle of the brightest and best who are you going to believe?
Will it be duplicitous Dave’s gaming, sex and fetish bloggers or Dr. Mike Ryan (epidemiologist and executive director of the WHO health emergencies program) and all the other scientists we cited?
Streisand effect anyone?
About John O’Sullivan John is CEO and co-founder (with Dr Tim Ball) of Principia Scientific International (PSI). John is a seasoned science writer and legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann in the ‘science trial of the century‘. O’Sullivan is credited as the visionary who formed the original ‘Slayers’ group of scientists in 2010 who then collaborated in creating the world’s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new follow-up book.
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Tom O
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But John, since we are talking of March, before the great jump, I am sure he said that ONLY because he saw the spike coming and KNEW that masks would come into short supply and wanted to make sure there was enough masks for the first responders! Thus he was trying to prevent a run on masks even as he KNEW how important they are, like chain link fence stopping BBs, or open windows stopping mosquitoes from coming into the house. Seriously, do I really have to put a (sarc) tag on this?
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John O'Sullivan
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Tom O, so you’re ok with government officials lying to the public on the science whenever they think it necessary?
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John Ray
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Well done John!
Seems USA Yesterday is still beating the bushes for customers. Best place they have decided is among the legions of Trump haters and Covid lovers. Isn’t it convenient that all these sources now have fact checkers. Does give them some form of legitimacy doesn’t it? Perhaps to their sworn allegiance of Gender study PhD’s, but far less to those who actually have skills. Last time I saw their paper was outside my hotel room door. It reminded me that I had a cat and that the paper did have a purpose, despite the colorful print.
My own fact checkers, who shall remain unknown, postulate that the only way to protect one from coronavirus is to use the plastic method. One simply needs to get sone plastic wrap at the local grocery store. Saran Wrap is preferred, but generic will do for those on a budget. One then needs to wrap the wrap around the face and head, extending to the neck. Make certain it is loose fitting around the nose as one will need space to breath. To further the effectiveness of this method, one could use a hairdryer to simply shrink the plastic, forming a tight seal that most certainly will keep the coronavirus out.
There you have it! Foolproof protection.
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very old white guy
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a garbage bag is also effective. it also eliminates complaints.
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cathleen anderson
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John, your brilliant comment made my day! Thank you!
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Andy Rowlands
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Nice one John for making this public!
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Robert Beatty
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You have put a lot of effort into this John, which is greatly appreciated. Unfortunately the face mask issue is only the ‘tip of the ice berg’.
The world seems to be going crazy with the USA refusing to acknowledge that they have just authorized a grossly fraudulent election, a flu virus that has been blown up into a ‘good for all’ death sentence, the creation of bottomless government debt pits, with the consequent annihilation of many small businesses, and a climate warming dream which defies all logic.
If I have to put my finger on one issue that creates these problems, it is the top-down form of government which is endemic in most parts of the world. Preferably we need to establish a bottom-up form of government which involves continuously inviting ‘we the people’ into the decision making processes, similar to that which has evolved in Switzerland.
Perhaps the Swiss can be persuaded to export ‘government remediation programs’ to replace the existing corrupted government systems.
A critical requirement is to repurpose the United Nations into an organization that better fits a non intrusive, but constructive global agenda.
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John O'Sullivan
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Bob, Thanks and spot on in your analysis!
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Mars
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The article says “media bias/fact check ratesPSI as a conspiracy and pseudoscience website…” A classic propaganda device, make the truth tellers into “ lunatic fringe.”
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cathleen anderson
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Bravo, John! You’re community of impartial scientists from around the world is starting to ruffle the feathers across the pond. You know you’re doing great work when the “establishment” starts to attack you. Keep up the great work!
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Zoe Phin
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I think compulsive lying is a fetish.
They are probably the perfect people for lying.
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