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The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have
The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.
M. Anthony Mills is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a senior fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, and a scholar associate of the Society of Catholic Scientists. He was formerly the associate editor of The New Atlantis and the executive editor of Big Questions Online. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and writes on science and philosophy.
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The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.
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