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Study Highlights Gap Between Views of Scientists and the Public

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: July 11th, 2009, 10:30am EDT

ZeroSerenity was one of many to write with news of a survey from the Pew Research Center which sought to find out how Americans feel about science and contrast that with the opinions of actual scientists. The study showed that "nearly 9 in 10 scientists accept the idea of evolution by natural selection, but just a third of the public does. And while 84% of scientists say the Earth is getting warmer because of human activity, less than half of the public agrees with that." 27% of the respondents said that the advances of the US in science are its greatest achievement, down from 44% ten years ago. The study is lengthy, and it contains many more interesting tidbits. For example: scientists decry the level of media coverage given to science, and they also think research funding has too much influence on study results. 32% of scientists identify themselves as Independent, while 55% say they're Democrats and 6% say they're Republicans.pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1155220/Study-Highlights-Gap-Between-Views-of-Scientists-and-the-Public?from=rss"img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/07/11/1155220"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1155220/Study-Highlights-Gap-Between-Views-of-Scientists-and-the-Public?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2v-ykKfYnemRk8jtIMMVmmbhCuA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2v-ykKfYnemRk8jtIMMVmmbhCuA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2v-ykKfYnemRk8jtIMMVmmbhCuA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2v-ykKfYnemRk8jtIMMVmmbhCuA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/oM9DWEk-4zY" height="1" width="1"/

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