A 2019 report prepared for the European Parliament finds that about half of European citizens say they are unable to distinguish between fake and trustworthy science news, and recommends that the school system take upon itself the task of educating minds on how to recognise ‘false truths’.32 4) Antagonistic cultural meaning.
As shown by several Science of Science Communication studies, in fact the credibility of science is not systematically in doubt. On the contrary, ‘the number of issues that actually display the science-communication problem is orders of magnitude smaller than the number that do not, but plausibly could’.33 In fact, in the vast majority of cases, the public does not mistrust the opinion of experts.