Palin Trashes Science
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| Sat, 10-25-2008 - 4:57pm |
In her first policy speech she trashes autism research in France involving fruit flies. Sounds reasonable if you don't know anything about autism, or research.
Here is the truth:
1. The research was in the United States, not France. Can you please get your facts right Palin?
2. Fruit flies, like rats, are standard fare in basic research. Trashing research because fruit flies are involved is really dumb.
3. The research in question actually has shown great promise in discovering the causes of autism.
Here it all is in a revealing segment: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#27367248
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/
Palin is so uninformed it's ridiculous. And by the way, this is like the umpteenth thing she and McCain have said would be exempt from their "across the board" spending freeze.
PS It's a hoot that she says Republicans are for kids with special needs. She should know that Bush basically screwed us on that front by delaying embryonic stem cell research for 8 years. Bush and the Republicans held up the research on religious grounds. All the while Rove was running around calling the religious right "nuts." As David Kuo, the former faith based advisor to the White House who became disgusted with the Republicans and quit revealed, these people are just hypocrites.

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"She doesn't want our tax dollars going to Paris France for their research. Soupyduck, I think she is agreeing with you. The research is being done in Paris, France as well as in the US. She doesn't want our tax dollars going there when we are indeed doing our own research. "
Melanie230, you are clearly a lot smarter than Palin in reinterpreting Palin's speech to try and not make her look ignorant. I suggest you watch the other link I posted at the top of the thread in addition to Olbermann. The other post notes there also was French research. Here it is again, since you seem to have missed it the first time:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/
As you can see from the clip, Palin was generally dismissed fruit fly research as if it were something outrageous. The truth there also was valuable fruit fly research right here in the United States, not France.
Palin was supposed to be talking about special needs issues. Scientific research is a key. Instead of speaking smartly, she spouted off like someone who doesn't have a clue. Fruit flies, like rats, are standard fare in basic research. Trashing research because fruit flies are involved is really dumb. And the research in question actually has shown great promise in discovering the causes of autism.
"Again you really shouldn't listen to Olbermann."
You really shouldn't tell people what to do melanie230. Seriously. We are adults. You can call Olbermann names all night long. That's just your POV. And tellingly, your criticism of him in this instance is off base. Olbermann gets right wing politicians and media like Fox all upset because he bursts their unreality bubble.
~She doesn't want our tax dollars going to Paris France for their research.
~ But we shouldn't be sending that money to Paris, France.
lol :)
I'm hoping soon she realizes that the USDA has a research facility in France (among other places).
((((Or that at least someone on the campaign can use google and find out where the money was going and why.))))
You would think so, right, but that is not the case. It just occured to me that with all of the in-fighting in the GOP camp and McCain's own camp and Palin's smug, "I know everything" attitude, her "handlers" might be setting her up for a fall by letting her go in public misinformed. If Palin is "rogue", and McCain's people are as immature as he is, I can picture them snickering behind her back as she jokes about the valuable research involving fruit flies or the VP's role in the senate as (the head
I had not considered that.
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