The current article (as of March 31 22:00 UTC) labels as medical misinformation the statements made by the Surgeon General of the United States and Alanna Shaikh about face masks not having demonstrated effectiveness. Trials have indeed been published suggesting that many kinds of face masks lack proven efficacy in stopping various types of viral infection in both observational or randomized-control studies (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22188875/). The Surgeon General himself referred to these studies (https://www.foxnews.com/media/surgeon-general-explains-masks-public-coronavirus). Aside from that compelling evidence for a reasonable debate existing on the issue of mask efficacy, the only citations in the article to back up this claim do not form a logical argument, since the first sentence states that calling face masks are ineffective is misinformation, and the second sentence says that face masks have been commonly recommended in disease outbreaks. To say that a measure has been recommended by some medical professionals has no direct connection to whether that measure has been scientifically evaluated to be effective, or whether no prior study has ever found that measure to be ineffective. Although one can personally disagree with the interpretation of available scientific evidence as to whether masks in general are effective as a public health measure in a viral pandemic, to label this as strongly as "misinformation" in an article section next to claims of snorting cocaine, drinking bleach, or running hair dryers seems very extreme and a violation of NPOV. There is indeed evidence supporting the claims made by the Surgeon General and others, and although conflicting viewpoints on the issue exist, that does not make their statements in the same category as a baseless conspiracy theory.