"Every country is asking how we can do science and scientific advice," says Jeremy Farrar, chief scientist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Eighty per cent of respondents thought policymakers lack sufficient understanding of science - but 73% said that researchers don't understand how policy works.
It's a constant tension between the scientifically illiterate and the politically clueless," says Paul Dufour, a policy specialist at the University of Ottawa in Canada.
Spiralling mis- and disinformation risks obscuring science advice, while anti-science sentiment is eroding trust in experts and evidence.
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