I sometimes abuse ampersands

For all my love for Criminal Minds, I'm pretty bothered by its militant anti-intellectualistic tendecies. Superior knowledge is closely linked to insanity, violence. There's Diana Reid, of course, and episodes like Derailed (with knowledge leading to insanity), The Fisher King (with the insane killer lost in a world of literary allusions - an ep that clearly shows the scriptwriters' lack of reading, for mixing the epics, the gothic, and the postmodern like that is a questionable choice at best), Empty Planet (reading leading to insanity), Masterpiece (knowledge leading to insanity), etc.

Reid's knowledge is played for laughs more often than not ("shut up kid, who would read 15 C. poetry for fun?" - well, I know several people who would & do, and not one of them is a schizophrenic or a serial killer); Prentiss has anxieties about her knowledge (she blames her social ineptitudes on her self-professed geekery, with her having read Kurt Vonnegut as the sole proof of that; again, I don't think there's a correlation between being an avid reader & being socially inept). It's getting pretty offensive at times.

The knowledgeable ones are constructed as mutants with strange, possibly hostile super-powers; they are always the Other, either ridiculed or demonized, but never quite accepted.