India has had a long and unbroken tradition of great scholarship — in mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, logic, and ethics. Yet, in parallel with this, several superstitious and obscurantist attitudes and practices flourished in our society and unfortunately continue even today — among many educated people too. How will you use your knowledge of science to develop strategies to counter these attitudes?

First and foremost, step would be to educate the people and spread the literacy. The people must be taught about the science behind the natural phenomenon occurring in nature day-to-day life and superstitious beliefs, these phenomena which people attribute to evil spirits and gods should be explained scientifically through mass media such as television, newspapers, cinema, etc. we also should not take these superstitions for granted and follow them. Instead, we should do otherwise. We should also tell and try to convince other people to not to believe or follow the superstitions unless they are scientifically proven. We should investigate these superstitions to its roots, if possible.


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