And the conclusion was that based on the data they were not able to determine if face masks protects you from infection or not.

For some reason this has led to media concluding that face masks do not protect you but that's not the same.

Another important effect of wearing a face mask is that it may protect other people from being infected by you but that effect was not part of the study.

ESP (extra sensory perception for predicting the future) has been peer reviewed.

Stripped of all the political connotations it's actually kind of an interesting debate for scientists to have.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html

As Anthony Fauci already pointed, one study can be both peer reviewed and be wrong.

I refer to July 31, 2020:

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-shoots-down-flawed-hydroxychlor...

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.): "it was peer reviewed"

Fauci: "It doesn't matter. You can peer review something that's a bad study."