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future research, but the four topics which part of view. Bauer explained in an essay how
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of the consortium had previously worked on resistance to techno-scientific developments
were chosen. In any case, there are a series occurred, regardless of the knowledge that
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of topics on different science and technology existed about them. In fact, this is how this
applications, closely linked to personal author argued the birth of public controversies
decision-making or with attitudes towards on science issues and their consequences,
science that could be significantly related which are largely motivated by the resistance
to political or religious ideology or any other of public opinion to the changes that occur in
scale of values such as a philosophical natural the development of science.
word vision (healthy life, environmentalism,
animalism, etc.). Concerning religion, recent work by O’Malley et
al. argued that most of the world would claim
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Since, in the PERSIST_EU project framework, to have a religious affiliation as an element of
no experiments were designed, with a control identity and worldview. Therefore, faith would
group, nor was qualitative work carried out with skew many personal opinions about science,
the attendees, we could only find out whether technology and society in general. In this
the training on the four topics under discussion sense, the authors proposed that religious
had produced student changes in perception. communities and religious leaders could
Therefore, we can conclude that the student contribute to improving public perception and the
worldviews were modified after training, and confidence of scientists, promoting evidence-
we also know with which topics the Likert’s based policies and improving diversity, equity
scales used were most affected and in which and inclusion in the fields of science. About the
countries. However, the most interesting biases that religion could introduce in some
finding was to know if the change in attitude positions, such as, for example, in the case of
occurred in the block of questions related to organ transplants, Evans and Kelley stated
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trust, opinion, or knowledge. In the light of that, if public knowledge of science continued
the above, the platform made it possible to its increase or acceptance of the theory of
diagnose a certain level of fundamentalism evolution, support for transplantation was
in certain topics and identify when training most likely to increase, as had been the trend
or knowledge on a science theme would not in recent years. According to Funk, many
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be related to people’s decision-making point scientists believe that if the American public

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