A researcher who works for the agency headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci and two other scientists made the argument that schools should not mandate mask-wearing in schools, undercutting the federal government’s recommendation that they should. “Many public-health experts maintain that masks worn correctly are essential to reducing the spread of COVID-19,” wrote Margery Smelkinson—who works for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases headed by Fauci—along with Leslie Bienen, a faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University–Portland State University School of Public Health, and Jeanne Noble, an emergency medicine doctor at the University of California–San Francisco. “However, there’s reason to doubt that kids can pull off mask-wearing ‘correctly,'” they wrote for The Atlantic. “We reviewed a variety of studies—some conducted by the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] itself, some cited by the CDC as evidence of masking effectiveness in a school setting, and others touted by media to the …