DURBAN - Miscommunication about the virus is raising concern that people's trust in scientific data and scientists may falter, public health experts have warned.
According to Dominique Brossard, professor and chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at UW Madison the recent events like the two studies that had to be retracted due to questionable patient data collected by Surgisphere could potentially erode the trust that we have in science in general.
“It's important to stress to people that science is built upon uncertainty. It's better to say, look, we do everything we can to find out what's going on and there's a lot of uncertainty, but we are moving in the right direction,” said Brossard.