%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Schultz, E.
%A Ward, J. K.
%A Atlani Duault, Laëtitia
%T Public perception of scientific advisory bodies : the case of France's Covid-19 Scientific Council
%D 2023
%L PAR00026800
%G ENG
%I [Early access]
%J Science and Public Policy
%@ 0302-3427
%K scientific advice ; France ; Covid-19 ; health policy ; public perception
%K FRANCE
%M ISI:001090641900001
%R 10.1093/scipol/scad067
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00026800
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X During the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have resorted to scientific advisory bodies to aid in public health decision-making. What then has been the public's perception of those new structures of scientific advice? In this article, we draw on a survey conducted in November 2020 among a representative sample of the French adult population (n = 1,004) designed specifically to explore public perceptions of the dedicated Covid-19 Scientific Council created in March 2020 and of scientific advice in general. After only 8 months, three-quarters of French people said they had heard of it, but only a quarter had a positive opinion about its usefulness. Despite the diversity of perceptions of what scientific advice is and should be, it appeared that scientific advice bodies are perceived as useful mainly by a public already largely supportive of the delegation of the management of public life to the government and public institutions.
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