Can big surveys of scientists combat misinformation on COVID, local weather change and extra?

Shocked by the influence of on-line misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of researchers are launching efforts to survey scientists’ pondering on points from vaccine security to local weather change. They hope that their initiatives will make scientific debate, and levels of consensus, extra seen and clear, benefiting public dialog and policymaking. Nevertheless, others counsel that these makes an attempt would possibly merely additional politicize public debate.

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