title: Attitudes and Views of Medical Students toward Science and Pseudoscience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To know opinions, attitudes and interest of medical students toward science and pseudoscience.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire was administered to 124 medical students of the San Marcos University in Lima, Peru.
  
  
  RESULTS
  173 students were surveyed. The response rate was 72%. Eighty-three percent (100/121) of respondents said that science is the best source of knowledge, 67% (82/123) said they were interested in science and technology news, 76% said they had not read any science magazine or book (other than medical texts and journals) in the last five years. Thirteen percent (16/124) of respondents said that astrology is "very scientific" and 40% (50/124) stated that it is "sort of scientific." 50% of respondents shared the opinion that some people possess psychic powers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Medical students' attitudes toward science are generally not favorable.
authors.affiliation: a San Marcos National University . Lima-Peru .
authors.forename: Adolfo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peña
authors.affiliation: a San Marcos National University . Lima-Peru .
authors.forename: Ofelia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Paco
keywords: Attitudes; medical education; scientific knowledge; scientific literacy.; views