{"id":138571,"date":"2022-04-24T22:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/survey-trust-in-science-is-high-but-misinformation-is-a-threat"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:09:15","slug":"survey-trust-in-science-is-high-but-misinformation-is-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/survey-trust-in-science-is-high-but-misinformation-is-a-threat","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Trust in science is high, but misinformation is a threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/survey-trust-in-science-is-high-but-misinformation-is-a-threat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trust in science is rising worldwide, according to a 3M-backed survey released Tuesday, and more people expect it to solve the world\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>But the fifth annual 3M State of Science Index also showed many are worried that misinformation could lead to more <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/public+health+crises\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">public health crises<\/a>, greater societal divisions and lack of action on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really good to see that trust in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">science<\/a> is high, and that\u2019s true in America and around the world, but misinformation threatens scientific credibility,\u201d Jayshree Seth, 3M\u2019s corporate scientist and chief science advocate, said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s not simply a matter of communicating facts, data and evidence. We need to build that relationship with the public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust in science is rising worldwide, according to a 3M-backed survey released Tuesday, and more people expect it to solve the world\u2019s problems. But the fifth annual 3M State of Science Index also showed many are worried that misinformation could lead to more public health crises, greater societal divisions and lack of action on climate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1495,224,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-health","category-science","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}