Why do scientists have so much trouble getting their point across to the general public and what can be done?

[evirustheslaye]

its a matter of eduction and media, science isn't made out to be a fun interesting thing, schools simply focus on the repetition of facts rather than learning how we know what we know, and news will often present two sides when one side is clearly wrong, they have a climatologist vs a conservative, a biologist vs a creationist, giving the false perception that scientific facts are nothing more than opinion. and finally in the movies and television scientists are portrayed as either evil, or "uncool" social outcasts.