You shouldn't. They're entirely different.
There are many paths to believing something, or accepting it as true.
The least reliable is faith. It's just "wishing makes it true." Another, is personal experience. But that's easily biased, and even fooled by our limited and faulty senses. Actual repeatable evidence is the best we have so far.

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

The evidence should convince people.

Scientists are failing to adequately communicate with the public.

[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Agreed. There's definitely a gap in how conclusions are communicated to the public.

It's crazy to me that so much of the general public don't understand that science is just a protocol of observing, recording, testing, and analyzing results.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, mostly not the scientists' fault but the media sensationalizing the data in secondary and tertiary sources.

And, as you said, general ignorance of how science works internally. That is a problem with education though, again not the fault of the scientists.

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