Why science is not able to influence people as much as other things do in some parts of the world

Science, with all the progress it has made till now should have been able to remove all the baseless blind beliefs that are persistent with people . Science undoubtedly is the antidote to the persistent fictions of the supernatural, and it has been the principal cause of a painfully slow erosion of those fictions. Yet in spite of its impact across six centuries, science in the modern age has done a poor job of communicating, and it must change its own culture of privileged isolation and separation from the masses, to one of creative engagement and proactive outreach. I think there is no greater mission for our time.

Resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. The factors  that influence people, especially  children, before their exposure to science is highly significant. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and will be especially strong if there is a non-scientific alternative that is rooted in common sense and championed by people who are taken as reliable and trustworthy.  These intuitions give children a head start when it comes to understanding and learning about objects and people. But these intuitions also sometimes clash with scientific discoveries about the nature of the world, making certain scientific facts difficult to learn. According to psychologists these intuitive beliefs are particularly likely to be endorsed and transmitted by trusted religious and political authorities. Cultural conditioning of minds cannot be ignored in this context. In some cases, there is such resistance to science education that it never entirely sticks, and foundational biases persist into adulthood. People resist certain scientific findings because many of these findings are unnatural to them and they think they are  unintuitive.  And when children learn science from their teachers and when this clashes with the things they learn differently from their parents, they tend to get confused. Single individuals more often will lack the resources to evaluate all the claims that he or she hears. They tend to follow what others around them tell them blindly.

Part of the explanation for resistance to science lies in how children and adults process different sorts of information. Some culture-specific information is not associated with any particular source. It is "common knowledge." As such, learning of this type of information generally bypasses critical analysis.  For example people treat electricity as common thing in Nature and refuse to accept the modification of it made by science and scientists to make it more human friendly. They take things for granted and refuse to accept the importance of science in making their lives more comfortable. People use cell phones, trains, buses, roads and all the things that are products of science in their daily lives but they won't be able to connect  these things to science and technology!

The result of insufficient exposure to the relevant scientific facts is contributing more to these existing problems. Building trust is the most important thing the world of science has to follow after removing the confusion.

The reason why scientists failed in communicating their work properly all these days is undermining the importance of cultural conditioning of the minds of the people they deal with. Falsehood that takes human beings towards temporary solutions and make them escape into imagined wonderlands and sensationalism appeals to people more than facts and truth. In order to succeed science must address this problem first. If art can help science overcome these drawbacks, these two would become a perfect pair that can take humanity towards true progress!

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