Asking science teachers to help impart enough content to understand all the issues may very well be unrealistic, but they could probably improve peopleâs appreciation for any accuracy of scientific knowledge. Through the study of the history of science, students might gain an understanding both of their own motivations for belief and of science for a method of knowing. When a student understands how a medieval worldview can have made a geocentric theory in the solar system seem correct, it is a short step to seeing corresponding influences in oneself. My websites: Cure For Cancer? How a 150-Year-Old Theory Might Help Turn the Corner on Cancer Research