Why Do So Many Americans Distrust Science?

Overall, 39% of U.S. adults said they had “a great deal of confidence” in the scientific community, down from 48% in 2018 and 2021. That's ...

Social Media and the Democratization Of Information · Political Polarization · The Messiness of Science · The Need To Build Trust.

Why don't Americans trust scientific consensus? The roots of our attitude can be traced back to the Second Great Awakening during the early ...

Politics and distrust undermined public health responses in the U.S. and the UK. Why was the response of each nation's scientists so ...

In the new survey, 57% of respondents said science has had a mostly positive effect on society, compared to 65% percent in November 2021.

Instead, the data reveal a persistent divide between the two-thirds of Americans who trust science and those ...

Scientists and academics, who often speak to each other in specialized technical language, were suddenly expected to speak directly to the ...

Fair enough, but why do so many Republicans distrust government, including government science, and think scientists are “always getting it wrong ...

Political ideology is seen by many researchers as the main culprit of science skepticism. The sociologist Gordon Gauchat has shown that ...

Some blame self-serving and mendacious politicians, who endanger the public good for their own benefit. Others point the finger at science ...

Factors such as rapidly evolving science, mixed messaging, and misinformation have eroded public trust in science during the pandemic, say experts.

Once a Democratic administration took over the federal government, Republicans became more likely to distrust recommendations and information ...

At the same time, increased political polarization and an outspoken faction of Americans who distrust experts, including scientists who develop ...

Indeed, many religious individuals reject science, in part, due to the perception that scientists are atheistic (24). More generally, when ...

Americans hold almost $200 billion in medical debt, and prescription drugs cost so much ... “I mean, do you want people to hate you?” he said.

Science is too concerned with theory and speculation to be of much use in making concrete government policy decisions that will affect the way ...

The growing distrust among Americans towards scientists and their work is well documented. In an era in which scientific output doubles ...

Yet in public policy disputes invoking scientific issues, people's trust in science is typically polarized, aligned with their political ...

Americans are growing less and less trusting of medical advice from experts, and lack of representation in the scientific field may be a reason why.

American conservatives came to see science as a politically-loaded endeavor. They were skeptical of climate science, and some fundamentalist ...