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Special EUROBAROMETER 340 “Science and Technology” Looking at the socio-demographic data, we see again that most groupings are around the EU27 average of 37%. However, when we look at the level of interest in and level of feeling informed about science we see more marked differences. For those respondents who are very interested in science, 45% of respondents disagree whereas for those who are not at all interested in science 21% of respondents disagree. The same pattern is seen when we look at those respondents who feel very informed about science; here 44% of respondents disagree while only 26% of those who feel not at all informed about science disagree. This again suggests that Europeans who are interested and feel informed about science may have fewer reservations about the ability of scientists to understand the complexity of the scientific and technological world. - 23 -
Special EUROBAROMETER 340 “Science and Technology” 2.3 Science and the influence of private funding - Europeans tend not to trust scientists who depend on money from industry. – When looking at the influence of private funding, we see that Europeans tend to agree that scientists can be unduly influenced if their work is funded by industry 15 . Close to three in five Europeans (58%) agree that “we can no longer trust scientists to tell the truth about controversial scientific and technological issues because they depend more and more on money from industry” while only 16% of respondents at the EU27 level disagree. The figure below shows that there are countries where respondents express a stronger view, with Cyprus in the lead at 72%. In Finland, Germany and Slovenia, seven out of ten respondents agree with the statement, also considerably higher than the EU27 average of 58%. Very few countries have less than 50% of respondents who agree that they cannot trust scientists who depend on money from industry. Ireland has the lowest rate of agreement at 36% and five other countries have fewer than 50% of respondents in agreement: Malta (41%), the Czech Republic (45%), Turkey (46%), Poland (48%) and the United Kingdom (49%). The same countries are also amongst those whose respondents disagree the most, led by the United Kingdom (26% disagreeing), the Czech Republic (25%) and Ireland (24%). 15 QC8.3 We can no longer trust scientists to tell the truth about controversial scientific and technological issues because they depend more and more on money from industry. - 24 -
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