Creationists weaken society's trust in scientists

Creationists Challenge Creationists

Iterative Weaken lieies

Decisions made in setting up and running search programs bias the searches that they perform. Search bias refers to the definition of a search space and the definition of the program that navigates the space. This paper addresses the problem of using knowledge regarding the complexity of various syntactic search biases to form a policy for selecting bias. In particular, this paper shows that a ...

Robert Sugden . Experiments in Economics . . . ( should we trust the dismal scientists in white coats ? )

Is the rapid growth of experimental research in economics evidence of a new scientific spirit at work or merely fresh evidence of a misplaced desire to ape the methods of natural sciences? It is often argued that economic experiments are artificial in some sense which tends to render the results problematic or uninteresting. In the early part of this paper I argue that this artificiality critiq...

Trust in Scientists and Food Manufacturers, with Implications for the Public Support of Biotechnology

The purpose of this paper is to determine what factor affect trust in scientists and food manufacturers, and to examine how trust in these institutions affects public support for biotechnology. Data from the U.S. Biotechnology Study reveal that benefits from biotechnology and expectations of trustworthiness are correlated with trust in scientists, but benefits and costs of biotechnology, and ex...

An attack on science? Media use, trust in scientists, and perceptions of global warming.

There is a growing divide in how conservatives and liberals in the USA understand the issue of global warming. Prior research suggests that the American public's reliance on partisan media contributes to this gap. However, researchers have yet to identify intervening variables to explain the relationship between media use and public opinion about global warming. Several studies have shown that ...