Scientific American and Nature: Five Questions of Their Readers. (October 11, 2010)

Scientific American together with its sister publication, Nature, polled their readers online. More than 21,000 individuals responded. Not unexpectedly, more than 19% of respondents listed themselves as Ph.Ds, the responses tended to be supportive.

The resulting article in Scientific American "In Science We Trust: Poll Results on How You Feel about Science" is available online.

Here the responses to five of the questions and the striking differences between populations.