Trust in science continues to fall. The disillusionment with the Covid response has spread to science in general. Anthony Fauci said "trust the science" then showed us how untrustworthy science was. SARS-2 definitely wasn't a lab-leak, except it probably was; the vaccine was 95% effective, except everyone caught covid, and the data was world's best practice but the FDA fought tooth and nail to stop us seeing it until 2076.
These results are terrible: despite respondents being surrounded by hi-tech cars, phones, food and gadgets which were all impossible without science, only 57% of people now think science has has a "mostly positive" effect. That's 43% of the population who now think science hurts us as much as it helps (or is even worse).
The good name of science, created by two generations with antibiotics, satellites, and the moon-landing, has been exploited by name-calling parasites.
Pew research released this in November, calling it just "a decline":
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A similar survey set by the National Science Foundation has been running since 1979, and year after year, found that between 68% and 79% of Americans used to think the benefits of science outweighed the negatives.
It's been remarkably consistent for four decades but we're in new territory now.
Here are those older results:
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Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is highEven the psychologist they interview can only bring himself to say "fairly high".
Carissa Wong, Nature
People around the world have high levels of trust in scientists, and most want researchers to get more involved in policymaking, finds a global survey with more than 70,000 participants. But trust levels are influenced by political orientation and differ among nations, according to the study, which was described in a preprint posted online last month1.
Respondents were asked to indicate how much they agreed with a dozen statements about the integrity, competency, benevolence and openness of scientists, on a scale of 1 to 5. A higher score indicated higher trust. Across all participants, the average trust score was moderately high, at 3.62...
Nature make sure to tell us trust is " linked to political orientation". They blame it mostly on political leaders. It's as if the voters are just the sheep being led astray, not the ones throwing tomatoes at the politicians who are slow to figure it out.
It is the end of an era.
REFERENCES
Public assessment of benefits and harms of scientific research: 1979-2018
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation, Survey of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology (1979-2001); University of Michigan, Survey of Consumer Attitudes (2004); NORC at the University of Chicago, General Social Survey (2006-18). Science and Engineering Indicators
To all those serious scientists out there, your profession and reputations have been ruined by charlatans such as the poison dwarf and the IPCC.
That also stands for doctors, nurses, indeed the whole medical profession, who allowed themselves to be conned into believing the nonsense of gov't propaganda. None of which contains any credible science.
Some of these no marks were openly laughing and smirking in TV interviews over the response they got from their propaganda. They are hoping that the experimental cash cows go back to grazing, minus a third of the herd.