U.S. science, medicine and technology were under the microscope in the latest survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, and one finding that’s generating headlines is that only 17 percent of the public participants held the belief that American scientific achievements are the best in the world. However, the people who write those headlines and do the reporting on science, medicine and technology — the media — also got low grades from the scientists who were surveyed.
