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?"
The abstract uses the phrase "advocate for radical policy changes". Which in context means "opposes public health officials calling for shutting down the economy, locking people in their homes, and completely restructuring society". Imagine being so "radical" as to think people ought to have lived 2020 and 2021 in much the same way as they lived 2019.
The whole social distancing paradigm is a radical departure from established norms and would have been considered unorthodox to scientists in the medical community just 5 years ago.
I still say the biggest surprise I saw was someone I know who did their PHD on the Spanish flu concluding masks didn't do anything calling for masks a year ago...
Of course got unfriended when I linked them to a copy of their own paper on the subject...
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!"
The abstract uses the phrase "advocate for radical policy changes". Which in context means "opposes public health officials calling for shutting down the economy, locking people in their homes, and completely restructuring society". Imagine being so "radical" as to think people ought to have lived 2020 and 2021 in much the same way as they lived 2019.
The whole social distancing paradigm is a radical departure from established norms and would have been considered unorthodox to scientists in the medical community just 5 years ago.
I still say the biggest surprise I saw was someone I know who did their PHD on the Spanish flu concluding masks didn't do anything calling for masks a year ago...
Of course got unfriended when I linked them to a copy of their own paper on the subject...
I presume any scientists in the medical community today are simply keeping their heads down while the activists have the run of the place...