How the pandemic changed trust in science — in four charts

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The largest analysis of its kind reveals the public’s changing relationship with science and the people who do it.

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  1. Miryam Naddaf
    1. Miryam Naddaf is a reporter for Nature in London.

Trust in science and researchers has fallen following the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest survey of public confidence in science shows. Led by the global biomedical funder Wellcome in London and published on 10 October, it explores how people feel about science and health — including vaccines, pandemic preparedness, clean energy and, for the first time, artificial intelligence (see ‘Trust in decline’).

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03248-z

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