Just a couple snippets from the conclusion to support what...

Just a couple snippets from the conclusion to support what I've said.

First one goes on to theorise how we can approach getting through to antimaskers given these findings.

Second one compares anti-maskers to fake news propagation and climate change deniers. Unless you guys agree with being lumped in with them

This was a very interesting paper. Thanks for posting. It does actually shed a bit of insight into how people appear to become so fervently "anti-science".

They aren't anti-science, they often understand just enough to be persuaded by these nut job videos and interviews (likely made by someone smart enough to eloquently discuss data, but not smart enough to draw sensible conclusions from it).

However, they don't understand enough to question, or to see the flaws in the arguments being produced.

Appeals to authority won't work. They don't trust the scientific community. And maybe with good reason, there's been lots of pretty shady things that drug companies in particular have been involved with.

Its a pretty major issue, however, that has real world consequences. And I'm glad groups like this MIT group are attempting to figure out how to combat it.