The signatories say that this is not an incident, but “another superlative insult to scientists by a certain part of parliament”. They point out that these kinds of insults and accusations are also increasingly being made in the public domain and have been the order of the day on social media for some time. “While research indicates that trust in science is still high, these developments are undermining that trust,” they write.
Stop attacking and undermining science, say hundreds of scientists
