Britain's trust in science plunges as Covid response comes under scrutiny
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Britain's trust in science has plummeted with a major new survey revealing a 12-percentage-point fall in strong public confidence in just five years.Despite the "follow the science" mantra during the Covid pandemic, those ‘very confident in science" have fallen by 12 percentage points since 2020.Only 51 per cent of Britons now say they trust science "a lot", compared with 63 per cent in 2020, according to the world's largest survey of public trust in science, commissioned by medical research charity Wellcome.The research also highlights differences in whom people trust.
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Six in ten people in the UK say they trust doctors and nurses "a lot", compared with 34 per cent for scientists and 14 per cent for the Government.
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