Trust Isn’t Given, It’s Earned: How Science Can Win Back Public Confidence
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings featured Yentli Soto Albrecht in its coverage of the closing panel of the 75th Interdisciplinary Meeting, alongside Randy Schekman, Maria Leptin, Donna Strickland, Saul Perlmutter, Chevarra Hansraj, and moderator Stefan Kaufmann.
For Soto Albrecht — an MD-PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania who carries the C9orf72 mutation — trust in science is not abstract. The piece draws on her perspective as both a researcher and a patient to argue that rebuilding public confidence takes more than presenting more facts.