你信专家吗？

How much faith do Americans have in scientists and science journalists? Not a whole lot, a new survey finds.

In a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, only 36 percent of Americans reported having "a lot" of trust that information they get from scientists is accurate and reliable. Fifty-one percent said they trust that information only a little, and another 6 percent said they don't trust it at all.

Science journalists fared even worse in the poll. only 12 percent of respondents said they had a lot of trust in journalists to get the facts right in their stories about scientific studies. Fifty-seven percent said they have a little bit of trust, while 26 percent said they don't trust journalists at all to accurately report on scientific studies.

What’s more, many Americans worry that the results of scientific studies are sometimes tainted by political ideology -- or by pressure from the studies’ corporate sponsors.

A whopping 78 percent of Americans think that information reported in scientific studies is often (34 percent) or sometimes (44 percent) influenced by political ideology, compared to only 18 percent who said that happens rarely (15 percent) or never (3 percent).

Similarly, 82 percent said that they think that scientific findings are often (43 percent) or sometimes (39 percent) influenced by the companies or organizations sponsoring them.

Republicans in the new poll were most likely to say that they have only a little bit of trust in scientists to give accurate and reliable information, and the most likely to say that they think scientific findings may be tainted by political ideology -- possibly reflecting distrust in scientists over topics such as evolution and climate change.

新闻快讯

美国人到底有多信任科学家或者看科学报道者？

一项调查显示，有36%的美国人非常相信，51%的美国人相信科学家说的一小部分内容，6%的美国人完全不相信科学家。

对于科学报道者的信任程度调查则更加糟糕，只有12%的美国人非常相信他们，57%的美国人只相信一小部分，26%的美国人完全不相信。

大多数美国人认为所发布的科学研究结果收到到政治家的影响，还有一部分美国人认为科学研究结果的发布受到科学家背后的企业或者团体的影响。这也反映了美国人对科学发现结果公布的不信赖。