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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Main Authors: Danielle M McLaughlin, Jack Mewhirter, Rebecca Sanders
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249937