When scientific journals take sides during an election, the public’s trust in science takes a hit

Posted on AllSides November 12th, 2020
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When the scientific establishment gets involved in partisan politics, it decreases people’s trust in science, especially among conservatives, according to our recent research.

In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, several prestigious scientific journals took the highly unusual step of either endorsing Joe Biden or criticizing Donald Trump in their pages.

In September, the editor-in-chief of the journal Science wrote a scathing article titled “Trump lied about science,” which was followed by other strong critiques from both the New England Journal of Medicine and the cancer research journal Lancet...

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https://theconversation.com/when-scientific-journals-take-sides-during-an-election-the-publics-trust-in-science-takes-a-hit-149351

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