As the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact our lives, one positive to come out of it is that national scientific literacy has considerably increased.
Queensland’s Chief Scientist, Hugh Possingham, is encouraged that along with being able to interpret scientific charts at a glance, overall more people are also placing more trust in science.
Mr Possingham says, “People are seeing, for possibly the first time in their life, how deeply policy is driven by science, and they’re far more engaged than they were before.”