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by cle 1951 days ago
That is a great way to improve trust. There are other ways as well, and we should work on them all.
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lmm 1951 days ago
Not necessarily. If our scientific institutions are actually untrustworthy, then the public is correct to mistrust them, and acting to artificially increase public trust in them would be counterproductive.
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cle 1950 days ago
There are a lot of people out there with unfounded mistrust. Some of it is justified, some of it is not. These things are not mutually exclusive.
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