Palin Trashes Science

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Registered: 08-20-2008
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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Registered: 08-24-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:14pm
I agree to disagree.

 

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:16pm

Then I am sure you must have seen this April reference to Alaska's senator as second in the most pork earmarks?

CAGW lists annual Congress pork tallies
Published: April 2, 2008 at 3:10 PM
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WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- Three Republican U.S. senators were designated the top "porkers" in Congress by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste.

The group released a report Wednesday that concluded that 11,610 projects worth $17.2 billion were earmarked into a dozen congressional appropriations bills in fiscal year 2008.

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., led the individual totals with $892 million. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was ranked second at $469 million, followed closely by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., a $465 million. The CAGW, which has been reporting on so-called pork barrel projects for 18 years, noted that Cochran is the ranking Republican on the power Appropriations Committee.

"When Congress adopted earmark reforms last year, there was hope that the number and cost of earmarks would be cut in half. By any measure, that has not occurred," CAGW President Tom Schatz said in a written statement.
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Registered: 08-24-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:34pm
It's been explained a couple of times that the group you mentioned failed to properly investigate that aspect of the report.

 

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:42pm
Actually I did see that.

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Registered: 07-11-2006
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:46pm

Related book link: The Republican War on Science

http://www.waronscience.com/home.php

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:50pm
Another reason to get the republicans out of the White House. Sarah isn't fond of the Washington Elite anyway so you'd think she'd just be happier in Alaska. So let's send her back there - for her own good.
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Registered: 08-27-2001
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:57pm
Again, we are discussing how this facility relates to what Palin said.
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:06pm

((((picking apart the details of Obama's uncle's military service during World War II.)))


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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:10pm

The original post was Olbermann's video.

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Registered: 08-27-2001
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:17pm
I don't research what is pork.

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