I don't think it is a crime to not be particularly knowledgable in science. Most of the examples given were just people relaying their misunderstanding of a topic. The one that gets me all up in knots is the vaccination/Autism connection. Here we have two people, competing to run a nation, relaying an apparent myth. There are thousands of parents who are opting not to vaccinate their children againsts debilitating and potentially deadly, but preventable diseases because leaders and celebs tell them not to. Considering it is completely unfounded since no apparent link has ever been made between vaccination and autism, it's tragic. On Cafemom.com, there is a whole group called novacs, dedicated to mothers who opt not to vaccinate and encourage each other to scare other mothers into doing the same. They should be publicly castigated for that, alone.