Steve Kirsch, a tech entrepreneur, writes a Substack arguing against Covid vaccines and other mainstream public-health positions.
HN commenters mostly cite it in vaccine-safety arguments, with some posting his links as rebuttals while others warn about his claims.
I guess it's possible you don't actually know the difference, but what you linked isn't a research paper or study; it's a news article! And it's factually incorrect. It cites the Bangladesh RCT, which I am well aware of already. The trial results showed little to no statistically significant benefit to masking: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360320982_The_Bangladesh_Mask_study_a_Bayesian_perspective
"A very large trial, whose results were published in Science, carried out in Bangladesh between 2020 and 2021 has been widely acclaimed as providing the most convincing evidence yet that masks work in reducing Covid-19 transmission and infections. However, the media grossly exaggerated the authors' own conclusions, and sceptical researchers have identified weaknesses in various aspects of the trial and statistical analysis which cast doubts on the significance of the results."
Also: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/famed-bangladesh-mask-study-excluded-crucial-data
"However, their pre-analysis plan to measure results for “each decade” of age ranges shows no statistically significant effects among people aged 18–29, 30–39, 40–49, and 70+. Furthermore, they excluded this breakdown from their paper and relegated it to a supplement."
Also: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/bangladesh-study-proves-masks-dont
Also: https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/09/02/clinical-trial-bangladesh-shows-masks-stop-covid-19-sort-15777
Also:…
Children aren't at risk from Covid at all.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w
In the US, 340 children under 17 have died from Covid. Total. During the same period, 187 have died from the flu, and over 51,000 children have died from all causes:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge
They are more likely to be injured by these vaccines and neurotic parents stuffing them into masks for hours at a time.
Sweden halts Moderna:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-moderna-sweden-halts-use-in-under-30s/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/iceland-joins-nordic-peers-in-halting-moderna-covid-vaccinations
117 children murdered for profit.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/we-will-kill-117-kids-to-save-one
I had longcovid 14 months until June 2021. Over the last year I haven’t been sick once.
I’m not convinced the VACCINE wasn’t a biological attack on your immune system. All my family who took it get sick repeatedly, I’m exposed to the viruses they have and don’t get sick.
All that is anecdotal, but it also jives with what Kirsch and others have been saying about the mRNA shots:
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-pfizer-vaccine-reprograms-both?s=r
That’s true.
But the difference between the COVID vaccines and seatbelts is the data — hence why you hear that argument about COVID vaccines, but not seatbelts.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/thailand-study-of-young-adults-post
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/here-is-the-data-behind-all-the-claims
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/doctors-in-canada-are-dying-at-a
History will judge whether the vaccines were effective or safe. Both are highly debatable at this point in time.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ed-dowd-millennial-age-group-25-to
Beware David Gorski:
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-david-gorski-defends-the-narrative