Why don’t Americans trust university researchers and why it matters for climate change

• R. Michael Alvarez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

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• Ramit Debnath ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rd545@cam.ac.uk

  Current address: Cambridge Zero, Maxwell Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Affiliations Division of Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Cambridge Zero and Computer Lab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-5683

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• Daniel Ebanks

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5928-9396

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