In 2021, 48 percent of the respondents in Finland said, that they tended to disagree or totally disagreed with the statement because of their knowledge, scientists have a power to make them dangerous. Only four percent of Finns totally agreed with the statement.
To what extent do you agree with the statement that because of their knowledge, scientists have a power that makes them dangerous?
The source adds the following information: "Some 26,827 respondents in the 27 EU Member States were interviewed in their mother tongue and the data was weighted to be socio-demographically representative at country level. The survey was also conducted in 11 other countries or territories, where a total of 10,276 respondents were interviewed in their mother tongue: five candidate countries (Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey), as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Kosovo, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In total, 37,103 respondents from EU and non-EU countries and territories took part in the survey."
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