Far from ignoring scientific evidence to argue for individual freedom, antimaskers often engage deeply with public datasets and make what we call “counter-visualizations”—visualizations using orthodox methods to make unorthodox arguments—to challenge mainstream narratives that the pandemic is urgent and ongoing. By asking community members to “follow the data,” these groups mobilize data visualizations to support significant local changes.

I'm sure every single author of this paper has at some point lamented ordinary people failing to take an interest in science and using the scientific method to make data-driven decisions.

MIT: "where'd you get crazy this idea that scientific methodologies and data ought to be made available to the public at large so they may draw their own conclusions?"

Plebs: "I learned it from you!"