January 2024 we are still reading that hospitals have asked visitors to its A&E department to start wearing face masks again. How can we ever trust medical professionals ever again knowing that they enforced measures that were not only unnecessary and useless, but also detrimental to our health and well-being? (see – The-Cloth-of-Compliance-is-Risking-the-Health-of-Our-Children.) Yet years down the line, those who we would expect to know better have shown they don’t, and are once again simply following orders and ‘questioning nothing. 

What hope have we got then when those orders come from the top and they are the ones questioning the evidence and undermining the scientists who provide it? Michael Nevadakis, PhD senior reporter for the Defender reports on an investigation by Paul D. Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicle who found that this is exactly what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have done. The CDC has rejected their own scientists’ studies on the effectiveness of facemasks in favour of political guidance.