Survey Says: In Science We Trust
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 14:32
in Mathematics & Economics
A new poll by Nature and Scientific American, out in SA's October 2010 issue, notes that scientists have had a tough year - the "leaked 'Climategate' e-mails painted researchers as censorious," the H1N1 outbreak "led to charges that health officials exaggerated the danger to help Big Pharma sell more drugs," and the Harvard investigation that found holes in a professor's data. Nature and SA wanted to know - does the public1 still trust scientists? The two polled readers using an internet survey on their Web sites, and more than 21,000 people responded.2 Here are the results: How much do people trust what scientists say? read more