Holy fuck. That’s a fantastic article by my god it betrays what’s going on.

While previous literature in visualization and science communication has emphasized the need for data and media literacy as a way to combat misinformation, this study finds that anti-mask groups practice a form of data literacy in spades. Within this constituency, unorthodox viewpoints do not result from a deficiency of data literacy; sophisticated practices of data literacy are a means of consolidating and promulgating views that fly in the face of scientific orthodoxy

The science is settled! You can’t go against the high priests with your evidence, that’s heresy to the orthodoxy!