Huge thanks to Lenka Waschková Císařová for her brilliant leadership, and to Zvi Reich for his initiative in bringing together scholars from around the world to make this project possible.

🥼 Their motivation? Not outright rejection of science—but skepticism toward scientific elites.
🤳🏼 Social media plays a key role: exposure to alternative science news may happen incidentally, rather than through active searching.

🤯 These users see themselves as highly media- and science-literate, yet they often overestimate their knowledge.

Here’s what we found:
📊 Only a minority of the population regularly uses alternative media for science information.