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Table1. Questions included in the online platform related to each topic and category.

Climate GMOs CAM
Change Vaccines

How well How would you What is your How much do
Knowledge informed are assess your level of you know about
alternative
information
understanding
you about
climate change? about GMOs? on how vaccines medicine?
work?
Do alternative
Is climate Do GMOs have Do vaccines medicines have
Perception change already more have more more
affecting our advantages or advantages or advantages or
daily life? disadvantages? disadvantages?
disadvantages?

Climate change GMOs will save Not vaccinating Alternative
Beliefs is caused by future children puts therapies are
human activity. generations other people in not a threat to
from hunger. danger. public health.

Scientists stated The benefits of According to Medical
in 2018 that we scientific and scientific treatments not
only have 12 technological research, side based on
Trust years to prevent research on effects of scientific
devastating GMO are vaccines are evidence should
climate change. greater than the rare or non- be discouraged.
risks. existent.

The questionnaire can be customised to each Sociodemographic questions are general
user needs, with the possibility of including in it questions that can be applied regardless of the
questions related to: country of use:
• Sociodemographic • Year of birth
• Climate change • Gender
• GMOs • Nationality
• CAM • Field of study
• Vaccines • Year of study
• Sources of information • Stage
• Parent 1 educational background
• Parent 2 educational background

All questions are optional, so it is possible to tell students just to fill some specific
questions.
Finally, data related to sources of information reveal the common sources to reach
science information and the social media used to look for it.
Information related to how to use the platform, can be found in Annex 1.

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