Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19.

"data availability the dataset analysed in the study is available in harvard dataverse as 'replication data for: political endorsement by nature and trust in scientific expertise during covid-19 (zhang 2023)' 10 7910/dvn/kbirpn.; code availability the code that reproduces the results is available in harvard dataverse as 'replication data for: political endorsement by nature and trust in scientific expertise during covid-19 (zhang 2023)' 10 7910/dvn/kbirpn. data availability the dataset analysed in the study is available in harvard dataverse"

"Competing interests The author declares no competing interests."

"I thank A. Acharya, M. Gentzkow and N. Malhotra for their continuous guidance; K. Casey, N. Halevy, S. Jha and K. Shotts for their comments and feedback; and B. Ginn and the Stanford GSB Behavioral Lab for help with subject recruitment. For funding support, I thank the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s PhD Fellowship Program and the Stanford Center for American Democracy (SCAD) at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript beyond the PhD research resources it provides."