Lockdown Sceptics

Looking into their Eyes: Covid Narrative Dissidents in Their Own Words

A new report cuts through the lazy stereotypes of Covid narrative sceptics to ask sceptics themselves what they think. The picture is a long way from the 'selfish' 'conspiracy theorists' painted in much of the media.
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Anti-Maskers “Practice a Form of Data Literacy in Spades”, Says MIT Study

We're publishing a guest post today about an unexpected benefit of the pandemic: the emergence of scientifically- and data-literate groups of amateurs who scrutinise and challenge the official scientific narrative.
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MIT Researchers Find That ‘Skeptics’ Value Data Literacy and Scientific Rigour

MIT researchers analysed a large sample of pandemic-related tweets, and used ethnographic methods to study "anti-mask" Facebook groups. They found that sceptics place a premium on data literacy and scientific rigour.
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