In the United States, they spoke about the persecution and threats of reprisals against scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic

Survey of researchers revealedAccording to a new survey published in the journal Science, COVID-19 researchers have been targeted since the beginning of the pandemic.Discuss

510 researchers who have published articles about COVID-19 participated in the survey. It turned out that 38% of the respondents were subjected to some kind of persecution. 71% of respondents said that before the pandemic they were subjected to less harassment or were not subjected to insults at all. Researchers who expressed their views on politicized topics in public were more likely to be harassed, Science analysis showed. p class=”jsx-4044922054″>In 2020, during a survey by VTsIOM, 16% of Russians said they did not trust scientists. Absolute trust has more than halved in 10 years.