Trust in scientists is a key predictor of compliance with science-based solutions to societal challenges. Although liberals in the USA generally trust scientists more than conservatives do, it is not clear how these ideological differences vary across different scientific occupations and whether they can be mitigated. Here, in this Registered Report (including 7,800 US participants), we demonstrate that, even though the strength of the relationship between political ideology and trust varies across scientific occupations, liberals (compared with conservatives) show higher trust in most scientists. Moreover, following motivational accounts of scientist distrust, the study tested five theoretically grounded intervention strategies to improve conservatives’ trust in scientists. None of the interventions were successful, suggesting that trust in scientists reflects relatively stable attitudes that require more elaborate and time-intensive interventions. [my bold]
Not surprising. It’s well-known that reality and nature have a woke, liberal bias.
Economists and archaeologists (to name only two) persist in telling conservatives things they don’t want to hear. That those things generally turn out to be true is especially galling.
Huh. TIL that “the hardest person to be right now in America is white males” and President Trump just wants Americans “to treat each other with respect and love”.
I’d never heard of Bunni Pounds before, but it appears she’s, IMHO, a Christian nut job. She has a ton of videos that come up in a YouTube search, but I don’t know how popular or influential she is.
Now, now. It may just be that she was forced to take some woke, anti-American history class that the liberals forced down her school’s throat where the US is evil, up-is-down, and black-is-white.
Wait a minute: black-is-white. OMG! It all makes sense, now.
It’s the white men that are being discriminated against and are at the bottom of the social ladder. It’s the minorities that are getting all the undeserved priviledge.