# If anyone wasn't sure, more evidence that masks work
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986
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**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986 "2020-07-15T15:05:27Z")
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986/81 "2020-08-18T20:08:20Z")
I was talking to @Boerenkool. We completed our conversation. Take care.
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### Author:  [@cardamom](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/cardamom)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986/82 "2020-08-18T20:09:06Z")
Except everything you said in that post was about what I said, not @Boerenkool, so…
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986/83 "2020-08-18T20:17:09Z")
Sorry @cardamom and @Boerenkool. I am not a scientist (well…not this kind of scientist anyway), and the points made in the critique and reiterated by you both are valid. I’ll look over the study again and remove my tunnel vision this time around.
Sorry if I offended either of you. 🙂 I actually think highly of you both.
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 4:21am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986/84 "2020-08-19T04:21:57Z")
That’s a very rare thing we just witnessed there on social media… I think Harold doesn’t see my posts but I’ll acknowledge his nonetheless. We need more of that… acknowledging when we don’t know what we don’t know. Props to him in this instance.
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### Author:  [@Boerenkool](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Boerenkool)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986/85 "2020-08-19T06:45:23Z")
Thank you! I appreciate that.
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### Author:  [@TiaG](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TiaG)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/if-anyone-wasnt-sure-more-evidence-that-masks-work/9986/86 "2020-08-19T14:19:06Z")
to be fair, as a science reporter, we saw this study and the press release that came with it, and the authors made statements overhyping the results – both in the releases and in interviews. At least some of the conclusions being widely publicized can be laid at their door. We reported this out as a “not so fast, here’s what the data really shows” story, but someone who was jumping on the news, even if they had interviewed an outside source, might have taken away the wrong message, if, say, their outside source winds up being a doctor rather than someone more well versed in statistics.
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