“Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.” arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993…“Indeed, anti-maskers often reveal themselves to be more sophisticated in their understanding of how scientific knowledge is socially constructed than their ideological adversaries, who espouse naïve realism about the “objective” truth of public health data.” “In other words, anti-maskers value unmediated access to information and privilege personal research and direct reading over “expert” interpretations.” “Its members value individual initiative and ingenuity, trusting scientific analysis only insofar as they can replicate it themselves by accessing and manipulating the data firsthand.” “They are highly reflexive about the inherently biased nature of any analysis, and resent what they view...
