By the Select Committee appointed to consider Science and Technology. Society's relationship with science is in a critical phase.
Science today is exciting, and full of opportunities.
This crisis of confidence is of great importance both to British society and to British science. Public interest in science in the United Kingdom is high. Survey data reveal, however, negative responses to science associated with Government or industry, and to science whose purpose is not obviously beneficial. These negative responses are expressed as lack of trust. People now question all authority, including scientific authority.