The Vancouver Sun reports in its Friday edition that a new study from the oil-and-gas lobby shows that people trust university professors, their neighbours and environmental activists more than journalists and leaders of energy companies with information about oil and gas. Postmedia's Geoffrey Morgan quotes Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers vice-president Jeff Gaulin as saying, "Clearly there is a bias to the white lab coat, the person who is the thoughtful, independent researcher." CAPP released the results of a wide-ranging Ipsos survey Wednesday which showed that respondents from around the world placed the most trust in oil-and-gas information from university professors, with 69 per cent of respondents trusting them. Fifty-nine per cent feel the same way about scientists and engineers at oil-and-gas companies, while 56 per cent considered environmental activists trustworthy. The results demonstrate how Canadians evaluate information amid debates about pipelines like the Trans Mountain expansion project or Energy East, Mount Royal University political science Professor Duane Brat said. "People are not evaluating the evidence, they're analyzing the source of the evidence," Prof. Brat said.