This thought-provoking and rather startling article shows how a limited focus on improving people's scientific knowledge and understanding can actually increase their resistance to scientifically validated truth. The author concludes that we must cultivate curiosity as an end in itself, not merely as a useful aid to 'learning'.
http://www.ecsite.eu/activities-and-services/news-and-publications/digital-spokes/issue-27#section=section-indepth&href=/feature/depth/ear-candling-trump-science-communication-post-truth-world