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Hard science is hard science. How people react is "soft science".

When you are young, you thought it is cool that you are able to predict accurately what is going to happen. Then you realize people don't act just because of a prediction so what you have spent time doing hasn't changed anything at all.
It is very hard to get people to believe in a prediction.

This is why science education is very crucial to change the fate of a society -- that people will learn to believe in a good prediction and act to change fate in time.