The belief that politics drive scientific research & its impact on COVID-19 risk assessment

We use survey data collected from 12,037 US respondents to examine the extent to which the American public believes that political motives drive the manner in which scientific research is conducted and assess the impact that such beliefs have on COVID-19 risk assessments. We find that this is a comm...

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Autores principales: McLaughlin, Danielle M., Mewhirter, Jack, Sanders, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8059820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33882088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249937
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description We use survey data collected from 12,037 US respondents to examine the extent to which the American public believes that political motives drive the manner in which scientific research is conducted and assess the impact that such beliefs have on COVID-19 risk assessments. We find that this is a commonly held belief and that it is negatively associated with risk assessments. Public distrust in scientists could complicate efforts to combat COVID-19, given that risk assessments are strongly associated with one’s propensity to adopt preventative health measures.
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spelling pubmed-80598202021-05-04 The belief that politics drive scientific research & its impact on COVID-19 risk assessment McLaughlin, Danielle M. Mewhirter, Jack Sanders, Rebecca PLoS One Research Article We use survey data collected from 12,037 US respondents to examine the extent to which the American public believes that political motives drive the manner in which scientific research is conducted and assess the impact that such beliefs have on COVID-19 risk assessments. We find that this is a commonly held belief and that it is negatively associated with risk assessments. Public distrust in scientists could complicate efforts to combat COVID-19, given that risk assessments are strongly associated with one’s propensity to adopt preventative health measures. Public Library of Science 2021-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8059820/ /pubmed/33882088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249937 Text en © 2021 McLaughlin et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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