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One thing that really bothers me is when I see bad science shown on TV shows, books, or movies. For example, the CSI series often take pictures captured from video cameras and continue to enhance and zoom them until they can see a perfect reflection of a person in another person's eyeball.

I would like to see them blow up an image until they see a black square.

"What's that?" "A pixel" "Can you zoom in some more?" "Sure, how big a square do you want?"

A book series that my boys really enjoy is "Magic Tree House". Although the stories are interesting and well written, they sometimes have some bad science. In one particular book, the brother and sister end up on a moonbase in the future. They wander around and find space suits. They put on the suits, go through the air lock and (suddenly), they feel lighter and they can jump higher. Somehow, the author thinks that the lack of air is what makes you jump higher, not the fact that the moon has a lower gravity than the earth.

Maybe I'm fighting a losing battle, but it bugs me every time I see bad science.