Model uncertainty, political contestation, and public trust in science: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
While scientific uncertainty always invites the risk of politicization and raises questions of how to communicate about science, this risk is magnified for COVID-19. The limited data and accelerated research timelines mean some prominent models or findings inevitably will be overturned or retracted. In this research, we examine the attitudes of more than 6,000 Americans across five different…
