{"id":502636,"date":"2021-07-23T23:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T03:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=502636"},"modified":"2021-07-23T23:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T03:36:46","slug":"author-of-retracted-study-on-harm-of-mask-wearing-by-children-says-removal-was-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=502636","title":{"rendered":"Author of Retracted Study on Harm of Mask-Wearing by Children Says Removal Was \u2018Political\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Walach, who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, told Just The News in <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/science\/jamas-retraction-paper-masks-harming-children-was-political-lead-author-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an emailed statement<\/a>\u00a0that JAMA didn\u2019t specify how he failed \u201cto provide sufficiently convincing evidence\u201d to back his conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would actually also like to see how those conclusions were reached, but I am afraid that there was no solid conclusion,\u201d he told the outlet. Walach pointed to \u201cpotential public health implications\u201d as a \u201ckey phrase\u201d in the retraction notice that, to him, suggests \u201cthe retraction was political, because some people did not like our data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/author-of-retracted-study-on-harm-of-mask-wearing-by-children-says-removal-was-political_3911445.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2021-07-22&amp;mktids=ef5239d8acdfaf3ea5125b5119073175&amp;est=[EMAIL_SECURE_LINK]\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/author-of-retracted-study-on-harm-of-mask-wearing-by-children-says-removal-was-political_3911445.html?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Walach, who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, told Just The News in an emailed statement\u00a0that JAMA didn\u2019t specify how he failed \u201cto provide sufficiently convincing evidence\u201d to back his conclusions. \u201cI would actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=502636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}