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Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus
Despite decades of concerted efforts to communicate to the public on important scientific issues pertaining to the environment and public health, gaps between public acceptance and the scientific consensus on these issues remain stubborn. One strategy for dealing with this shortcoming has been to fo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9289351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35873138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00569-z |
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author | Slater, Matthew H. Huxster, Joanna K. Scholfield, Emily R. |
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description | Despite decades of concerted efforts to communicate to the public on important scientific issues pertaining to the environment and public health, gaps between public acceptance and the scientific consensus on these issues remain stubborn. One strategy for dealing with this shortcoming has been to focus on the existence of scientific consensus on the relevant matters. Recent science communication research has added support to this general idea, though the interpretation of these studies and their generalizability remains a matter of contention. In this paper, we describe results of a qualitative interview study on different models of scientific consensus and the relationship between such models and trust of science, finding that familiarity with scientific consensus is rarer than might be expected. These results suggest that consensus messaging strategies may not be effective. |
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spelling | pubmed-92893512022-07-18 Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus Slater, Matthew H. Huxster, Joanna K. Scholfield, Emily R. Erkenntnis Original Research Despite decades of concerted efforts to communicate to the public on important scientific issues pertaining to the environment and public health, gaps between public acceptance and the scientific consensus on these issues remain stubborn. One strategy for dealing with this shortcoming has been to focus on the existence of scientific consensus on the relevant matters. Recent science communication research has added support to this general idea, though the interpretation of these studies and their generalizability remains a matter of contention. In this paper, we describe results of a qualitative interview study on different models of scientific consensus and the relationship between such models and trust of science, finding that familiarity with scientific consensus is rarer than might be expected. These results suggest that consensus messaging strategies may not be effective. Springer Netherlands 2022-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9289351/ /pubmed/35873138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00569-z Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Slater, Matthew H. Huxster, Joanna K. Scholfield, Emily R. Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus |
title | Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus |
title_full | Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus |
title_fullStr | Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus |
title_full_unstemmed | Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus |
title_short | Public Conceptions of Scientific Consensus |
title_sort | public conceptions of scientific consensus |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9289351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35873138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00569-z |
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