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कर्नाटक बोर्ड पी.यू.सी.पीयूसी विज्ञान कक्षा ११

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 Obscurantistic 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 ?

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प्रश्न

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 obscurantistic 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 ?

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उत्तर १

In order to popularise scientific explanations of everyday phenomena, mass media like radio, television and newspapers should be used. We shall use our knowledge of science to educate masses and shall try to tell them the real cause of an event so that their superstitious beliefs are rejected.

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उत्तर २

Poverty and illiteracy are the two major factors which make people superstitious in India. So to remove the superstitious and obscurantist attitude we have to first overcome these factors. Everybody should be educated, so that one can have scientific attitude. Knowledge of science can be put to use to prove people's superstitious wrong by showing them the scientific logic behind everything happening in our world.

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