Can science make people helpless in the presence of unquestionable evidence?

Q: Can science make people helpless in the presence of unquestionable evidence?

Krishna: Yes, helplessness for common people! 

Absolute empowerment for the scientific community!

People on the street have several preconceived notions, conditioned beliefs,  cognitive biases based on these things and they usually expect to confirm these things over and over again. 

They usually don't have enough knowledge to process any information in the right way. 

When genuine scientific evidence disrupts these things, most people can't even digest this. Emotions take precedence. 

So people 'get hurt', angry, feel helpless, try to attack you back - sometimes in a veiled way, threaten you, carry their threats too because they cannot counter you in a correct way. 

They treat people who speak facts as a threat!

We can understand this. Cognitive dissonance is very difficult to deal with for emotional people. 

When somebody is repeatedly subjected to an aversive stimulus that s/he cannot escape, they feel helplessness.  

Helplessness occurs when a person who has experienced repeated challenges comes to believe they have no control over their situation and therefore, if not trained properly, become aggressive and antisocial.

When people feel that they have no control over their situation, they may begin to behave in a helpless manner. This inaction can lead people to overlook opportunities for relief or change.

This helplessness is characterized by more lasting symptoms such as: Avoiding decisions, Bad attitude, Giving up quickly, Inability to tolerate frustration, Lack of effort, Low motivation, Passive behaviour, Poor self-esteem, Procrastination, Refusing to try to change ( both the situation and their mentality).

However, some men on the street respect the world of knowledge, and despite feeling helpless, acknowledge the genuineness and authenticity of the field and  accept it without any hesitation. We love these kind of people. Because they don't cause us any problems. 

But scientists are different.

We try to see things as they are, tell others exactly what we see and think - our behaviour most of the time doesn't involve any emotions -  at least as far as science is concerned. Facts are facts, whether you agree with them or not. You cannot do anything about it! Tell the world the truth and face the consequences - good or bad. 

Science teaches us to practice  humility. When genuine evidence demands it, we just accept it, bow our heads in respect and move on. Peer-reviewing has taught us this. 

Actually - peer-reviewing is good for everybody. If what you did is not right, you can analyse yourself,   correct yourself and improve yourself.  This is progress. Why worry about progress? 

Falsification? We openly embrace it in the scientific world. 

We don't feel helpless, instead we feel empowered. 

A person  who criticizes you is always better than the one who praises you! 

A person who falsified your theory has  helped you to realize your mistake and caused the course correction. Why worry about the correct way of gaining knowledge? 

Constructive Criticism? Let it come! We welcome it in the scientific world through peer-reviewing. 

But,  only when done in the scientific way. 

Okay, now you know how  the scientific world and the ordinary world treat evidence based facts. 

Your perspective shapes your behaviour!

We can understand this. So we smile and move on. No worries.