Scientific paper debunking mask mandate skeptics debunks itself

American Thinker ^ | 05/11/2021 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

A scholarly paper written by 5 people, four of them from MIT, one from Wellesley College, takes a skeptical look at skeptics of the mask mandates, and has a hard time condemning them as much as the authors clearly want to. Nevertheless, in their conclusion, they write of “horrifying ends” achieved by people using scientific inquiry by the book. Pixy Misa at Ace of Spades HQ sums it up:

Researchers at MIT are horrified to find that mask mandate skeptics are doing rigorous research and not blaming everything on white supremacy.

I am not making this up.

A Twitter poster called commie lee jones read through the dreadful academic prose. The entire thread can be read here.

MIT researchers 'infiltrated' a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism.

"Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution."https://t.co/jsoAG8G2VT pic.twitter.com/CpEvCKz2HK — commie lee jones (@commieleejones)

Isn’t that a good thing? Institutions are subject to corruption a they seekm to perpetuate and enrich themselves. Science is based in the scientific method --a process that incorporates skepticism at every stage.

 

"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." — commie lee jones (@commieleejones)

That almost sounds like an endorsement!

 

"In other words, anti-maskers value unmediated access to information and privilege personal research and direct reading over “expert” interpretations." — commie lee jones (@commieleejones)

 

 

Yes, skepticism!  That's how science progresses!

 

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wow.

“But, you see, we all know that “science” is all-knowing and perfect, and whatever is printed in “scientific journals” MUST BE accepted as truth and without error. By everyone, for everyone, in every circumstance. For ever and ever, Amen.”
/their religious belief in “science”

[grey_whiskers]

Insert several Dick Feynman quotes here.

[eyeamok]

the usurpation of scientific knowledge by a paternalistic, condescending elite that expects intellectual subservience rather than critical thinking from the public."

Who is John Galt?

[cuban leaf]

There are two types of people in the world: Maskless and faceless.

I’m of the former.

[mewzilla]

Note to commieleejones: It’s not just lumping asymptomatic and symptomatic. NYS counts probables and repeat positives of the same patient as new cases.

Our stats are crap.

Bet other states’ are, too.

[mewzilla]

commie lee jones
@commieleejones
Replying to
@commieleejones
“In fact, the explicit motivation for many of these followers is to find information so that they can make the best decisions for their families—and by extension, for the communities around them.”
9:57 AM · May 10, 2021

Amen, brother.

[mewzilla]

And they aren’t masks.

They’re muzzles.

[Mr. K]

The real irony is that he thinks these things are wrong.

What WE would applaud as using your head instead of listening to the ‘experts’,- he would decry as... using your head instead of listening to the ‘experts’

[GailA]

btt

[Blood of Tyrants]

Bottom line, pro-maskers are more likely to believe whatever the government tells them while anti-maskers look at the evidence and make up their minds for themselves.