The document discusses several reasons for resistance to scientific theories, including religion, media influence, and ethical concerns. It provides examples of how peer-reviewed research on vaccines and evolution have faced resistance. Theories may be resisted due to religious beliefs that conflict with the science. Media coverage can spread misinformation and fear, as in the case of discredited research linking vaccines to autism. Ethical debates around issues like stem cell research can also provoke resistance when science touches on concepts like what defines human life. Over time, scientific consensus often grows as evidence accumulates, but resistance may persist for various social and cultural reasons.

1. There are many reasons as to why some scientific
theories have resistance such as
Religion
The media
Ethical reasons

2. Scientific developments are communicated to the scientific
world through professional journals.
The process a scientific paper is subject to in order to be
published begins when authors submit a manuscript to a
publisher, is divided into two distinct phases: peer review
and production.
The process of peer review is organized by the journal
editor and is complete when the content of the article,
together with any associated images or figures, are
accepted for publication.
A manuscript undergoes one or more rounds of review;
after each round, the author of the article modify their
submission in line with the reviewers' comments; this
process is repeated until the editor is satisfied and the
work is accepted.

3. Creationism or evolution is an argument
that has been going on for a very long time. There
is no 100% definitive proof for either side and
this renders either side unwilling to accept the
opposing side.
An example of how scientific theories are resisted
historically is 1968. The United States Supreme
Court invalidated a forty-year-old Arkansas
statute that prohibited the teaching of evolution
in the public schools.

4. A current example of how scientific theories are
resisted is lobbying campaigns.
On both sides of the controversy a wide range of
organizations are involved at a number of levels
in lobbying in an attempt to influence political
decisions relating to the teaching of evolution.
The Discovery Institute is an example of an
organization that lobbies against evolution.

5. The media also has a big influence on the resistance on
some scientific theories.
MMR jabs are controversial and will be for a long time to
come due to falsified published papers.
In the UK, the MMR vaccine was the subject of controversy
after the publication in The Lancet of a 1998 paper
by Andrew Wakefield and others reporting a study of 12
children mostly with autism spectrum disorders with
onset soon after administration of the vaccine

6.  Several subsequent peer-reviewed studies have
failed to show any association between the
vaccine and autism. It later emerged that
Wakefield had received funding from litigants
against vaccine manufacturers and that he had
not informed colleagues or medical authorities of
his conflict of interest.
Vaccination rates in the UK dropped to 80% in the
years following the study.

7. The media helped a significant amount in the
spreading of Wakefield's paper.
They use sensationalist headlines and present
things as fact and ultimately did irreversible
damage.

8. Stem cell research is surrounded by lots of
controversy. This is because of Ethical reasons.
George Bush famously prevented a ban that being
lifted on federal funding for stem cell research. He
said “It crosses a moral boundary that our decent
society needs to respect”
This is the concern for many, as it enters the debate of
is an embryo a human life and many people aren’t
comfortable with research in the grey area.

9. Overall scientific theories are constantly
being dismissed and resisted, sometimes
out of fear some might claim with regards
to religion. Sometimes out of ignorance or
being mislead in the case of the media,
and sometimes for moral reasons. But
more often than not with time the theories
are slowly accepted.