Stark divide: Americans more confident in career scientists at US health agencies than leaders

Public confidence that career scientists at federal health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are providing the public with trustworthy information about matters concerning public health is significantly higher than confidence in the leaders of those agencies, according to a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania.