Americans' Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline

Possibly interesting paucity of data:

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites...

> Note: Sample sizes for Asian Democrats and for Black, Hispanic and Asian Republicans are too small to analyze responses separately

for comparison over a longer time scale (1973-2018): https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/27/public-co...

Edit: if I read these correctly, xii.2018 had 44% for "a great deal" of confidence but x.2023 only has 23% for "a great deal" of confidence? If these results are indeed comparable: four legs good two legs bad baaa

> About a third (34%) now say the impact of science on society has been equally positive as negative. A small share (8%) think science has had a mostly negative impact on society.

I guess clean water, electricity, refrigeration, transportation, munitions, and vaccines/medicines/anaesthetics just haven't made enough good impacts over time? Even though science also has contributed in myriad ways to fouling of air, water and soil, and various individual and ecological ills. Better to be superstitious bronze age tribes, perhaps? Though superstition still nearly rules the US.