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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The original post was Olbermann's video.
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So your conclusion is based on feelings, and mine is based on facts and logic.
Why the rolling of the eyes?
Thanks for the link. Got 4 1/2 stars on Amazon - which is tough for anything that is not flattering to Republicans.
http://www.amazon.com/Republican-War-Science-Chris-Mooney/dp/0465046762/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225074895&sr=8-1
From Publisher's Weekly: "Mooney tracks Bush White House efforts to spread misinformation about stem cells; the work of religious right regulators like Dr. David Hager (formerly on the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs advisory committee) in restricting access to birth control; and the attempts of the Discovery Institute (and other think tanks linked to the Bush base) to fight the teaching of evolution. In the past five years, Mooney documents, many formerly apolitical physicists, biologists and doctors have come to believe there is a "pattern" of science abuse under Bush, a push back against the methods of science itself. Conservatives may react with indignation; liberals, moderates and working scientists will find few surprises,but Mooney's very readable, and understandably partisan, volume is the first to put the whole story, thoroughly documented, in one place. "
And since the book has been out there since 2006, this I believe was before all the tell-alls from the former head of the FDA and so many others.
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