It would be awfully charitable to categorize Atlas's call for people in Michigan to "rise up" as an argument. Among other reasons, a call for insurrection isn't

It would be awfully charitable to categorize Atlas's call for people in Michigan to "rise up" as an argument. Among other reasons, a call for insurrection isn't falsifiable. As for his actual arguments (see [0] for reference) they're a good reminder that there's no virtue in contrarianism in and of itself. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that advocating for reduced mask usage at the margin will impact mask usage in "public settings" in "areas with known or suspected widespread transmission" - a situation in which the WHO report Atlas cites [1] unambiguously recommends that the general public wear masks. But of course, I'm sure Atlas's decision to sum up that nuanced balance of evidence as "Masks work? NO" were rational and non-partisan. [0] https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/18/white-house-expert-scott-atlas-censored-by-twitter/ https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/18/white-house-expert-scot... [1] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332293/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.4-eng.pdf https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332293/WHO-...