The public attitude toward science

Analytic Attitude toward the Contemporary Urban Public Spaces Related to the Communal Rituals

Progress toward Public Access to Science

Editorial T he National Institutes of Health (NIH) is about to cross an important threshold. Starting April 7th, the authors of research reports that describe work supported by the NIH will be required to deposit accepted manuscripts into PubMed Central (PMC), the NIH's public digital library of full-text articles, with the understanding that the articles will be freely available for all to vie...

Attitude of Basic Science Medical Students Toward Interprofessional Collaboration

PURPOSE Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and interprofessional education (IPE) are increasingly emphasized in the education of health professions. Xavier University School of Medicine, a Caribbean medical school admits students from the United States, Canada, and other countries to the undergraduate medical course. The present study was carried out to obtain information about the attitude ...

Public Knowledge and Attitude toward Essential Tremor: A Questionnaire Survey

BACKGROUND Public awareness of and attitude toward disease is an important issue for patients. Public awareness of essential tremor (ET) has never been studied. METHODS We administered a 10-min, 31-item questionnaire to 250 consecutive enrollees. These included three samples carefully chosen to have a potential range of awareness of ET: 100 individuals ascertained from a vascular disease clin...

Opinion: Conducting science in the public eye

Doing science is usually hidden behinds the wall of the lab and universities, and thus immune from immediate public scrutiny. The current COVID-19 pandemic has dragged the scientific process and its fruits in the public eye. In this short piece, I attempt to discuss the effect of conducting science in the public eye on the public’s perception of science and scientists.