How much faith do Americans have in scientists and science journalists? Not a whole lot, a new survey finds.

In a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, only 36 percent of Americans reported having "a lot" of trust that information they get from scientists is accurate and reliable. Fifty-one percent said they trust that information only a little, and another 6 percent said they don't trust it at all.

Science journalists fared even worse in the poll. Only 12 percent of respondents said they had a lot of trust in journalists to get the facts right in their stories about scientific studies. Fifty-seven percent said they have a little bit of trust, while 26 percent said they don't trust journalists at all to accurately report on scientific studies.

What’s more, many Americans worry that the results of scientific studies are sometimes tainted by political ideology -- or by pressure from the studies’ corporate sponsors.

A whopping 78 percent of Americans think that information reported in scientific studies is often (34 percent) or sometimes (44 percent) influenced by political ideology, compared to only 18 percent who said that happens rarely (15 percent) or never (3 percent).

Similarly, 82 percent said that they think that scientific findings are often (43 percent) or sometimes (39 percent) influenced by the companies or organizations sponsoring them.

Republicans in the new poll were most likely to say that they have only a little bit of trust in scientists to give accurate and reliable information, and the most likely to say that they think scientific findings may be tainted by political ideology -- possibly reflecting distrust in scientists over topics such as evolution and climate change.

【新聞快訊】

美國人到底有多信任科學(xué)家或者看科學(xué)報(bào)道者？

一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，有36%的美國人非常相信，51%的美國人相信科學(xué)家說的一小部分內(nèi)容，6%的美國人完全不相信科學(xué)家。

對(duì)于科學(xué)報(bào)道者的信任程度調(diào)查則更加糟糕，只有12%的美國人非常相信他們，57%的美國人只相信一小部分，26%的美國人完全不相信。

大多數(shù)美國人認(rèn)為所發(fā)布的科學(xué)研究結(jié)果收到到政治家的影響，還有一部分美國人認(rèn)為科學(xué)研究結(jié)果的發(fā)布受到科學(xué)家背后的企業(yè)或者團(tuán)體的影響。這也反映了美國人對(duì)科學(xué)發(fā)現(xiàn)結(jié)果公布的不信賴。