{"id":241782,"date":"2010-01-28T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:04:26","slug":"are-americans-becoming-more-distrustful-of-science-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/241782","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans Becoming More Distrustful of Science? | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/environment.yale.edu\/news\/5965\">alarming results<\/a> just out from Yale and George Mason. Not only are Americans growing <em>less convinced<\/em> about global warming&#8211; either that it is happening or that it is human caused. We knew that already. But what&#8217;s more, Americans also appear less trusting of scientists in general, which is pretty alarming, as there have long been positive (if vague) sentiments towards the scientific community in this country:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">The survey also found lower public trust in a variety of institutions and leaders, including scientists. For example, Americans\u2019 trust in the mainstream news media as a reliable source of information about global warming declined by 11 percentage points, television weather reporters by 10 points and scientists by 8 points&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Finally, Americans who believe that most scientists think global warming is happening decreased 13 points, to 34 percent, while 40 percent of the public now believes there is a lot of disagreement among scientists over whether global warming is happening or not.<\/p>\n<p>All of this amounts to nothing short of a complete PR nightmare. I am no public opinion specialist, but I wonder if we are seeing a trace of scandals like ClimateGate and GlacierGate in the data here. If so, it would be just more evidence (not that I needed it) that we are getting it handed to us by the skeptics, as never before&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VURA0bOa1N57Y7lV3CVhzBTZggs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VURA0bOa1N57Y7lV3CVhzBTZggs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VURA0bOa1N57Y7lV3CVhzBTZggs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VURA0bOa1N57Y7lV3CVhzBTZggs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/SPSMSpS683U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some alarming results just out from Yale and George Mason. Not only are Americans growing less convinced about global warming&#8211; either that it is happening or that it is human caused. We knew that already. But what&#8217;s more, Americans also appear less trusting of scientists in general, which is pretty alarming, as there have long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}