An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Researchers, policy makers and science communicators have become increasingly been interested in factors that affect public's trust in science. Recently, one such potentially important driving factor has emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic. Have trust in science and other science-related beliefs changed in Germany from before to during the pandemic? To investigate this, we re-analyzed data from a set of representative surveys conducted in April, May, and November 2020, which were obtained as part of the German survey Science Barometer, and compared it to data from the last annual Science Barometer survey that took place before the pandemic, (in September 2019). Results indicate that German's trust in science increased substantially after the pandemic began and slightly declined in the months th

SUBMITTER: Bromme R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8827432 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature