> About a third (34%) now say the impact of science on society has been equally positive as negative. A small share (8%) think science has had a mostly negative

> About a third (34%) now say the impact of science on society has been equally positive as negative. A small share (8%) think science has had a mostly negative impact on society. I guess clean water, electricity, refrigeration, transportation, munitions, and vaccines/medicines/anaesthetics just haven't made enough good impacts over time? Even though science also has contributed in myriad ways to fouling of air, water and soil, and various individual and ecological ills. Better to be superstitious bronze age tribes, perhaps? Though superstition still nearly rules the US.