Stick to the Science
A year ago I wrote about disturbing news from the Pew Research Center that trust in science, and in scientists, had fallen since the pandemic. I am slightly relieved to report that a new follow-up study by Pew indicates that trust is up slightly — but still way below where they were pre-pandemic.
Overall, 76% of Americans express fair or a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests (versus 87% in April 2020). The public is about evenly split about how active a role scientists should take in policy debates — 51% think they should, 48% think they should stick to science. A year ago those numbers were flipped.
I think about all this in the context of the proposed members of President-elect Trump’s health team, whose takes on “science” are often considered out of the mainstream.
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3 个月"The sad thing is that we do need major changes. CDC made many blunders during the pandemic. Over the past forty years, we have allowed the food industry to create an obesity crisis. The FDA is riddled with conflicts of interests, and its regulation has often been ineffective. Our payment structures for Medicare and Medicaid are at best antiquated and at worse incentivize expensive and often ineffective care. I could go on."? Your editorial is the best part of this article. Keep going, Kim!