Monday, October 4, 2010

Poll: Scientific American readers trust what scientists say about "depression drugs" least, second to only "flu pandemics"

Interesting poll here by the Scientific American: In Science We Trust

The basic point of the article and poll is to see how trustworthy a selection Nature and Scientific American readers thought scientists were in the wake of "climategate" and hyperbolic swine flu epidemic predictions.

The more interesting thing for this blog is how much the respondents trusted scientists in a breakdown of selected subjects.

Flu Pandemics is dead last at 3.19

Depression Drugs is just a few ticks above that at 3.21

And strangely, both pharmaceutical related. Hmm.

I realize that this isn't a scientific poll, but I still find this interesting.



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