City-dwellers have higher trust in science than country folk

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Half of urban and suburban residents in the US have high confidence in scientists compared to roughly a third of people in rural areas

There are large geographic divides in the US public’s trust of science, with rural residents being more sceptical than those from cities and the suburbs, according to new analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.