Palin Trashes Science

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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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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 12:39am
Palin Mocks 'Fruit Fly Research' That Aids Autistic Children




Posted Oct 25, 2008, by ■ Chris V. (cgull


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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 1:28am

Oh, phew! lol It's okay, I've done that myself.

 

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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 1:30am

Just to add, maybe you could go back and edit it?

 

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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 1:46am

FWIW, I offered the same quote yesterday, to no avail:


http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-elpoliticsto/?msg=17829.16

 

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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 2:48am
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Edited 10/27/2008 3:19 am ET by sild
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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 2:58am
It would seem to me that protecting the food production of California would fall under "public good." Her example seems an odd one especially since it can be argued that it had a legitimate purpose and besides it was not very much money. Either she picked the first thing she saw, or else, which is more likely, she picked because of the "Paris, France" thing.
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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 3:10am

I tend to agree, at least some of the way. Not all earmarks are pork either. Sometimes earmarks are there because it is faster to get things done that way. It does not necessarily mean that the spending is suspect.

If we really want to save money, one way might be to restructure federal contracts in order to avoid debacles like, for example, the Trilogy project:

"Trilogy, as the name suggests, had three parts: an enterprisewide upgrade of desktop hardware and software; deployment of a modern network infrastructure; and an integrated suite of software for entering, finding, sharing, and analyzing case information. In a congressional hearing last month, FBI Director Robert Mueller was careful to note that the first two parts of Trilogy have been completed: no less than 30,000 computers, 4,000 printers, 1,600 scanners, 465 servers, and 1,400 routers were deployed as of April 2004."

"The problem with that software, known as VCF (Virtual Case File), is that it isn't in production and may never be. VCF may be one of the most extreme examples of requirements bloat in IT history. What began as a fairly modest software project swelled into an all-encompassing replacement for a panoply of woefully outmoded applications and procedures. Along the way, the FBI went through five different CIOs, 10 project managers, and 36 contract changes. The result, said Senator Patrick Leahy at February's Senate Appropriations Committee hearings, "has been a kind of train wreck in slow motion."

Accounting for $170 million of Trilogy's $581 million price tag, VCF fell afoul of extraordinary circumstances --notably, the Sept. 11 attacks, which piled enormous pressure onto the Trilogy project and altered the course of VCF dramatically."

"For the foreseeable future, that leaves the FBI with its obsolete, mainframe-based ACS (Automated Case Support) system, which requires the user to traverse a dozen 3270 green screens to upload a single document. Worse, according to the OIG's report, "the ACS only serves as a backup to the FBI's paper file system information within that system cannot be changed or updated.""

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/21/12FEfbi_1.html

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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 3:35am

(((It would seem to me that protecting the food production of California would fall under "public good." Her example seems an odd one especially since it can be argued that it had a legitimate purpose and besides it was not very much money.)))))


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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 3:44am


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Registered: 05-27-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 4:04am

Isn't at least a bit ironic that Palin attacks effective science research as wasteful spending. Why don't we have a looks at all of those worthy project that she funded.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-23-palinspending_N.htm

Palin earmarks:
$402,000 To study the arctic fox
$154,000 renovation of gun clubs
$125,000 Alaska Aviation museum
$44,500 For a ski resort
$55,000 Air Show
$50,000 for a little league field

Under Palin rape victims have to pay for their own rape kits

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