Adult science literary has tripled since I was a kid, despite the shrill claims that teachers are incompetent, people are stupid and science education is "dismal" that we seen thrown around in consumer media and the advocacy-based segment of science blogging.  In reality, people are pretty smart about science, but it can be humbling and people are less confident about things that are difficult.

Nothing shows that more than asking parents themselves what questions from their kids they find tough to explain.  Kids are curious and it may take two or three levels of explanation to get the point across - and that isn't easy for anyone to do.

Ari Levaux, a food columnist, wrote about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in The Atlantic. Fair enough, it is a hot-button issue among anti-science progressives and they need to sell pageviews over there so it isn't much of a surprise.  He's a syndicated columnist so they don't check his stuff in advance but I guess the fact that he does restaurant reviews for the Albuquerque Weekly Alibi is good enough for them to trust his take on complex biology topics.(1)