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      The belief that politics drive scientific research & its impact on COVID-19 risk assessment

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          We use survey data collected from 12,037 US respondents to examine the extent to which the American public believes that political motives drive the manner in which scientific research is conducted and assess the impact that such beliefs have on COVID-19 risk assessments. We find that this is a commonly held belief and that it is negatively associated with risk assessments. Public distrust in scientists could complicate efforts to combat COVID-19, given that risk assessments are strongly associated with one’s propensity to adopt preventative health measures.

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                PLoS One
                PLoS One
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                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                21 April 2021
                2021
                21 April 2021
                : 16
                : 4
                : e0249937
                Affiliations
                [001]Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America
                University of Haifa, ISRAEL
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2409-1248
                Article
                PONE-D-21-01593
                10.1371/journal.pone.0249937
                8059820
                33882088
                9001c3ee-7b90-43bb-90c8-47196edf66c1
                © 2021 McLaughlin et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 18 January 2021
                : 26 March 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 1, Tables: 1, Pages: 11
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001, National Science Foundation;
                Award ID: NSF: Award Abstract #2034367
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                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008982, National Science Foundation;
                Award ID: NSF: Award Abstract #2034367
                Award Recipient :
                RS, JMM NSF: Award Abstract #2034367 National Science Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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