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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

I think we all agree that there is a crisis even in our society about how we use science.

We all know about climate change denial on one side, but there's also all the issues about opposing GMOs or anti-vaccination.

Lucy Jones. She's a seismologist and a policy advisor on earthquake risk.

She spoke February 17th at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.

And what we are seeing here is there is a significant part of society

that doesn't understand how the scientific process works

and looks at scientific information as something you get told to believe

because the scientist said it's true.

And then if you're going to believe that

authority figure, there's several others that you could turn to as well. So what to do? In 2016,

she founded the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, which tries to get the public

and policymakers to use scientific information to improve the resiliency of their communities. And here's a brief

portion of her talk proposing solutions to the problem of the gap between scientists and society.

We need to look at science education for the broader public, more focused on process rather than

results. And this is another place where the internet has really changed things.

You know, when I was in school, if you want to learn those facts,

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