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I may be overstating it a little, but personally, I think any further watering down of science is dangerous. There are already far too many members of society who believe wild and wacky things (due to a lack of sound knowledge of scientific fundamentals) and, perhaps worse, have not been well taught to research and reason things out for themselves (due to ignorance of scientific methods and lack of foundation to build on). This leads people to often mistrust those who advise them even when the advice is flawless.
IMHO, a knowledgeable and enlightened society is an empowered one. A dumb society is easily manipulated.
BTW, if you ever want to see what learning is like when based just on broad exposure to different ideas in some semi-structured, partially-philosophical way (which seems to be the direction that "they" want to take science) then try Marketing. I did Marketing at post-grad level (formal course at a top-tier Uni) and, coming from a scientific and technical background, was horrified at the lack of foundation and structure. The texts were complete waffle and, so it seemed to me, there was no wrong answer, just opinion. They may as well have been teaching finger painting for all the good it was going to do.
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