It's because Strange doesn't give a single shred of a toss about what civilians believe. He has no need to convince the general public that magic is real; if anything, people might PANIC if they actually understood the nature of Doctor Strange's job.
A TV show called "Twelfth Hour" had challenged Doc Strange to prove that magic is real. Strange wasn't even remotely interested in jumping through hoops for TV cynics, and of course the tabloids ate it up with greasy spoons.
It only became a problem when the "Twelfth Hour" hosts, not having a sorcerer to berate on the air, decided to fill their airtime mocking an ancient pagan idol - that predictably sucked all of 'em into another dimension, forcing Strange to go save their cynical asses from oblivion.
Steve Ditko doesn't portray the "Twelfth Hour" hosts as bad people, they're just terribly misguided men of science. It would be too easy to say that these guys are the MU equivalents of famous real-life skeptics like Richard Dawkins and James Randi, but IMO there's a big difference: In the Marvel Universe, there IS actual proof of magic and impossible things. A "skeptic" would have to mean something different, in a world where dragons, vampires, celestial beings and magic hammers are all real and observable.
In the end of the story, Strange actually cast a Spell of Forgetfulness on the "Twelfth Hour" hosts, after saving them. Strange's job is actually EASIER, if people don't know that the monsters lurking under their beds are real.
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