Chris Lee, writing for Ars Technica, revisits the well-known paper by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in which the lack of self awareness was found to lead to inflated self views. I found the final section, entitled What about science communication?, to be particularly relevant:
Furthermore, there seems to be an inherent misunderstanding on the part of scientists and science communicators, according to Dunning. “For example, scientists often think that telling the world a conclusion has scientific consensus settles the issue. To scientists, this makes sense. To the general public, they ‘hear’ that scientists must be colluding on an issue.” In other words, the message poisons itself. This comes back, at least in part, to education. “They [scientists and science communicators] assume some basic knowledge (and faith) in science in the general population that, in truth, is missing,” Dunning said.