High School GCSE Science

I like to think of myself as a tolerant person. However, armchair science is something I have very little patience for. This is a situation I've found myself to be in more and more, I'm up against some very articulate people who none the less have barely understood GCSE biology/chemistry/physics. Sometimes I don't have the inclination to start teaching GCSE biology at parties, but it amazes me the conviction some people have regarding pharmaceuticals, medicine, genetic engineering, fertility treatments, cloning and so on when their science is at best, patchy.
The science taught at school level does not reveal the reality of the complexity and depth of the subject. Often at A Level things that are wrong are taught to simplify concepts only to be taught properly at university. The Na+K+ pump being involved in the initiation of an action potential for example. It doesn't play a role here, but to make A Level science doable its easier to just say that it does, rather than the ten page explanation for what actually occurs. and this is applicable to just about every topic in science! Some woman on TV once talking about GIFT with her high school(GCSE biology) knowledge. I felt a bit embarrased for her, as GCSE biology, even A Level is such a huge oversimplification for what actually happens. Want to understand the complexity of IVF? Why GIFT was popular in the 1980s but no longer ? You will need more science than the standard an A Level gives you. It will take more than a ten minute slot on daytime TV to explain.

Medical Journalists. Is there a profession more hated by doctors?! I think not! Medical Journalists need to create sensational headlines. They need to tell you about some magic pill that will save 7 million lives per year. OK, aspirin is a useful drug, in certain circumstances. But not for everyone. Not for the man who now has a gastric ulcer haemorrhaging because he read that taking an aspirin a day would save lives. Now he's in hospital due to that trash he read in some newspaper. and who gets to feel the brunt of this and take the blame? Not the medical journalists! What's even more disgusting to me, is that some medical journalists are actually medically qualified. Therefore they know the implications of the rubbish they write. For the majority of media outlets, as far as I have investigated so far, these journalists do not have a proper scientific background to understand what they are spouting, not the immediate words nor the far reaching implications.
I think the point here is, just because one reads something and one thinks they understands doesn't mean they do. I used to read medical notes before med school and thought I knew what they were all about. I didn't. Only now after years of med school do I truly realise that before med school, I knew nothing at all. One only knows how much more I will realise I don't know as my education continues.