this NSF report on science and technology is, quite frankly, disgusting; the fact that only 66 percent of women knew that the earth rotated around the sun is alarmist enough, but when you throw in the fact that only 65% of all adults realized that you can't make radioactive milk safe by boiling it and that only 48% of adults realized that the earliest humans didn't live at the same time as the dinosaurs you realize that we are a nation of idiots. Worse, only 67% of people with graduate/professional degrees knew the correct answer to the fred flintstone question, and 20% of people with graduate/professional degrees still missed the nuclear milk question. I must admit, I'm pro-nuclear power, but when I think that one fifth of all people who have completed grad school still believe you can fix radioactive milk by boiling it, I become scared. Thankfully, the statement (yeah, these were TRUE/FALSE statements!!! not multiple choice!) with the highest number of correct answers was "cigarette smoking causes lung cancer" at 94%. (Who knew that Tobacco CEOs made up 6% of our nation?) The toughest statement was "lasers work by focusing sound waves" (God knows what people think of ultra-sound, and people's brains might explode if they contemplated MRI machines!) which, admitedly, probably people don't know how lasers work. But you'd think they'd know that lasers don't involve sound. I wonder if people know LASER is an acronym? Check out appendix 7-10 of the report here.