An_enthuiast

What is one area of science that you feel most people have the least firm grasp of?

Do you think the process of conducting science will change in the future with more crowd-funded projects (e.g. Scifund) and private research institutes (e.g. Craig Venter) especially since the state of academic/governmental science funding seems to be a bit gloomy these days?

All of you are well-established science writers now but how interested in science were you in grade school? And why do you think you were or weren't?