The Importance of Trust in Public Institutions

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The Clarity Foundation aims to combat misinformation on social media. Co-founders include entrepreneur Thomas Lamb, chief executive of the mining firm Miriad Uranium in Vancouver. They asked 199 experts about safety of COVID-19 vaccines and 68% agreed or disagree with seven statements. Follow-up questions could feature topics including climate change, microplastics and even conspiracy theories.

Shocked by the impact of online misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, several researchers are launching efforts to survey scientists’ thinking on issues from vaccine safety to climate change. They hope that their projects will make scientific debate, and degrees of consensus, more visible and transparent, benefiting public conversation and policymaking. However, others suggest that these attempts might merely further politicize public debate.

This is an audio version of our Feature: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?

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