自新冠疫情以来，全球对科学的信任度有所下降，2025年有72%的人表示信任科学，而2020年这一比例为80%。Wellcome全球监测报告对超过14万名成年人进行了调查。
Global trust in science has fallen since Covid, with 72% trusting it in 2025, down from 80% in 2020. The Wellcome Global Monitor surveyed more than 140,000 adults.
信任度下降最明显的是经济压力较大的人群。在不平等、腐败和公共机构薄弱的地区，人们对科学的信任也较低；而医疗体系与公众联系更紧密的地方，信任度则更高。
The biggest drop was among people under financial strain. Trust was also lower where inequality, corruption, and weak public institutions were seen, and better healthcare links with higher trust.
信任度下降可能损害公共健康，导致疫苗接种率下降和麻疹病例增加。Wellcome表示，科学必须更好地与社区互动，因为政治和错误信息已经削弱了公众的信心。
Lower trust may hurt public health, with falling vaccination rates and more measles cases. Wellcome said science must engage communities better, as politics and misinformation have weakened confidence.
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在疫情前、期间及之后被调查的各国中，2025年有72%的人表示至少对科学抱有某种程度的信任，而2020年这一比例为80%，2018年为77%。根据Wellcome全球监测报告，对科学家的强烈信任也已降至疫情前水平以下。该报告调查了全球超过14万名成年人。
Across countries surveyed before, during and after the pandemic, 72% of people expressed at least some trust in science in 2025, down from 80% in 2020 and 77% in 2018. Strong trust in scientists also dropped below its pre-pandemic level, according to the Wellcome Global Monitor, which surveyed more than 140,000 adults worldwide.
信任度的下降可能对公共健康产生深远影响，因为疫苗接种率正在下降，可预防的疾病正在卷土重来。
The retreat has potentially far-reaching consequences for public health as vaccination rates decline and preventable diseases resurge.
美国目前正经历三十年来最严重的麻疹爆发，今年已报告近3900例病例，而在许多社区，儿童疫苗接种率已低于防止爆发所需的水平。
The US is experiencing its worst measles outbreak in three decades, with almost 3,900 cases this year, while childhood vaccination rates have fallen below levels needed to prevent outbreaks in many communities.
这些发现正值错误信息和阴谋论使应对卫生威胁的工作变得复杂之际，一些国家的科学机构也面临日益增长的政治和资金压力。
The findings come as misinformation and conspiracy theories complicate responses to health threats, and scientific institutions in some countries face growing political and funding pressures.
该调查并未确定信任度下降的具体原因，但Wellcome首席执行官约翰-阿内·勒特宁根（John-Arne Røttingen）表示，疫情期间科学的政治化很可能是一个促成因素。他指出，疫苗、口罩和公共卫生措施在此期间变得具有政治争议性。
The survey does not establish what caused the decline, though the politicisation of science during the pandemic probably contributed, said John-Arne Røttingen, chief executive officer of Wellcome, a London-based health research foundation. Vaccines, masks and public-health measures became politically contested, he said.
“政治使得部分科学变得更具政治性，这导致了两极分化，甚至可能导致信任缺失，”Røttingen在柏林接受采访时表示。
“Politics has made some of science more political and that has led to the polarisation and maybe a lack of trust,” Røttingen said in an interview from Berlin.
经济困难人群的信任下降尤为明显。2025年，39%的自称生活舒适的人表示对科学有很大信任，而经济拮据者中仅有20%持此观点。
The decline was particularly pronounced among people experiencing financial hardship. In 2025, 39% of those who said they were living comfortably reported a lot of trust in science, compared with 20% among those who find it difficult to get by.
自疫情以来，这一差距进一步扩大。在2020年至2025年期间，经济困难群体对科学的强烈信任下降了16个百分点，而生活舒适群体仅下降了10个百分点。经济不平等程度更高的国家也倾向于对科学信任度较低，公众对公共机构信心不足或认为腐败严重的地区同样如此。
That divide has widened since the pandemic. Strong trust fell 16 percentage points among those struggling financially between 2020 and 2025, compared with 10 points among those living comfortably. Countries with greater economic inequality also tended to have lower trust in science, as did places where people had less confidence in public institutions or perceived greater corruption.
Røttingen表示，经济困难人群可能将科学视为一个未能为其服务的更广泛系统的一部分。“科学被视为那些未能兑现承诺的机构之一，”他说。
People struggling financially may see science as part of a broader system that is not working for them, Røttingen said. “Science is seen as one of those institutions that are not delivering,” he said.
科学家也需要更好地接触这些群体。“我们在向这些群体和社区解释科学如何惠及他们方面做得还不够好，”他说。医疗体验也与信任密切相关。虽然全球有26%的人表示对科学有很大信任，但对本国医院和卫生诊所充满信心的人群中，这一比例上升至43%。
Scientists also need to do a better job of reaching such communities, he said. “We haven’t been good enough at explaining and engaging with those groups and those communities on how science is benefiting them.”Experiences with healthcare were also closely associated with trust. While 26% globally said they had a lot of trust in science, that rose to 43% among people with a lot of confidence in their country’s hospitals and health clinics.
由Wellcome与Gallup和Ipsos共同制作的该调查指出，信任与疫苗接种之间存在关联。当受访者被问及医生或护士建议接种疫苗时他们会怎么做时，34%表示希望立即接种，48%倾向于先考虑一下，15%表示根本不接种疫苗。
The survey, produced by Wellcome with Gallup and Ipsos, points to a connection between trust and vaccinations. When respondents were asked what they do when a doctor or nurse recommends a vaccine, 34% said they wanted it immediately, 48% preferred to think about it and 15% said they did not get vaccines at all.
希望立即接种推荐疫苗的人表达对科学有很大信任的可能性是不接种疫苗者的两倍——分别为36%和18%——尽管Wellcome警告称，其他因素也会影响疫苗接种决定。
Those who wanted a recommended vaccine immediately were twice as likely to express a lot of trust in science as those who did not vaccinate – 36% versus 18% – though Wellcome cautioned that other factors also shape vaccine decisions.
疫苗接种覆盖率下降表明，不信任可能带来超出个体层面的后果，因为疫苗也能保护更广泛社区中无法接种疫苗或无法产生强烈免疫反应的人，Røttingen说。
Falling vaccination coverage shows how mistrust can have consequences beyond the individual because vaccines also protect people in the wider community who can’t be vaccinated or don’t mount a strong immune response, Røttingen said.
“我很担心”美国和欧洲麻疹病例的上升，他说。公众对新疫苗和其他技术的接受意愿在未来的公共卫生紧急情况中也将至关重要，他说。“只有当人们信任科学并信任科学带来的技术时，科学的力量才能得到充分发挥。”政治分歧政治也似乎在塑造美国人对科学的看法。认为科学使大多数人受益的人的比例从2018年的48%上升至2025年的57%，逆转了全球下降的趋势。
“I am worried” about rising measles cases in the US and Europe, he said. Public willingness to use new vaccines and other technologies will also be crucial in future health emergencies, he said. “The power of science can only be fully realised if people trust the science and trust the technologies coming from science.”Political divide Politics also appears to shape Americans’ views of science. The share saying science benefits most people rose to 57% in 2025 from 48% in 2018, bucking a global decline.
然而，人们的看法在政治立场上出现了明显分歧。在不认同其国家领导人的美国人中，有74%表示科学“很大程度上”使他们受益，而在认同其国家领导人的美国人中，这一比例为44%。该调查是在唐纳德·特朗普赢得2024年总统大选但乔·拜登仍担任总统期间进行的。
Yet views were sharply divided along political lines. Among Americans who disapproved of their country’s leader, 74% said science benefited people like them “a lot”, compared with 44% among those who approved. The survey was conducted after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election but while Joe Biden was still president.
尽管如此，科学家仍比政府和记者更受信任，根据调查结果。在疫情期间，表示对科学家“有很大信任”的人比例从2018年的34%上升至43%，但在2025年降至32%。
Scientists nevertheless remain more trusted than governments and journalists, according to the survey. The proportion expressing a lot of trust in scientists rose to 43% during the pandemic from 34% in 2018, before falling to 32% in 2025.
Røttingen表示，这一下降需要放在适当的背景下来看。全球仍有大约十分之七的人对科学持信任态度。BLOOMBERG
The decline needs to be kept in perspective, Røttingen said. About seven in 10 people globally still trust science. BLOOMBERG