U.S. President Donald Trump recently fired Director General Erica McEntarffer of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) immediately after the release of employment data. This is not the first time Trump ...

We Americans don’t trust as much as we once did. So point out all the pollsters who’ve been tracking trust in the United States since the middle of the 20th century. Back in the late 1950s, notes the ...

Conservative people in America appear to distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview, but also, compared to ...

Misplaced distrust leads citizens to dismiss legitimate leaders, experts, or groups. This distrust may be fueled by prejudice or misinformation, and political rhetoric. This comment highlights the ...

Could online warning labels from fact-checkers be ineffective — or perhaps even backfire — for individuals who distrust fact-checkers? Across 21 experiments, we found that the answer is no: warning ...