A question of trust in science

How can policy-makers discern between genuine disagreement among experts and false uncertainties raised by commercial interests?



Science isn’t swayed by the fashion of the age

The media and non-scientists tend to underestimate the built-in scepticism of scientists – for instance, it took more than 30 years for the Big Bang model to be taken seriously





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