Study Claiming Face Masks Harmful, Increase CO2 For Children Is Retracted

Fox News host Tucker Carlson touted a face mask study that was published as a research letter in ... [+] JAMA Pediatrics. However, JAMA Pediatrics has now retracted the study due to questions about its science. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

You know that face mask study that Tucker Carlson featured on his FOX News show? The one that was originally published as research letter in JAMA Pediatrics? Well, fuggedaboutit. JAMA Pediatrics has retracted the study.

If you were watching the July 1 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, you would have heard Carlson claim that this “study confirms that masking children wasn’t simply unnecessary and probably counterproductive. Masking children was legitimately dangerous for the children.” Did he say “dangerous?” Again these are masks on the faces of children and not possums or poop. It’s not as if children have never worn masks over their faces before the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. There is this thing called Halloween, for example. Carlson, by the way, has about as many medical degrees as your average alpaca: zero.

Meanwhile, that same day Alex Berenson, who is doesn’t appear to be either a medical doctor or an alpaca, tweeted the following:

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