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US trust in scientists plunged during the pandemic — but it’s starting to recover

Confidence that researchers will make decisions in the public interest rose slightly from 2023 to 2024.
  1. Alix Soliman
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For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in scientists has increased in the United States — but just slightly, according to a poll conducted around two weeks before the US presidential election.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03723-5

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  • Correction 15 November 2024: An earlier version of this story misstated the results of a global study of trust in scientists.

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  1. Cologna, V. et al. Preprint at OSF Preprints https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/6ay7s (2024).

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