I know this is outside the usual way of arguing what's true, but: the studies are wrong. They're underpowered and poorly designed. The smart money is on masks

I know this is outside the usual way of arguing what's true, but: the studies are wrong. They're underpowered and poorly designed. The smart money is on masks working, at least when used in a widespread way by the population as a whole. Benefit to individuals is much harder to show, hence why studies have failed to show it. The chloroquinine drug, or whatever it's called, I bet that will turn out to be effective as well. Studies so far have been not powerful enough to show it definitively, but have you noticed the stuff has been selling out long before Trump opened his mouth? And it's not just idiots who will eat fishtank cleaner without checking the dose or the other ingredients that are buying it, it's nations, and doctors. Did you know Parachutes have never had a randomised controlled trial to determine whether they are effective? There are many things that there are good reason to think are true, that science has failed to show definitively yet. Masks is one of them. I think people will eat their words on this one, and anyone reading this should take their trust in randomised controlled trials down a notch. They are designed to have a low false-positive rate. But their false-negatives are through the roof.