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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McCain LOST???
"~You really shouldn't listen to Olbermann. He is a moron~
Edited to add, maybe we might refrain from using that word. You are aware of its origins (ie. originally applied to people with developmental delays such as those with Down Syndrome)?"
Good point. You would think there would be little more sensitivity here.
((((That's one good reason to vote Democratic if you believe in the separation of church and state.))))
Great points and post. Palin has shown that she either
and Obama doesn't know history ... even family history.
His famous uncle story was told incorrectly for years ... not just once.
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He's not? Could've fooled me!
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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM
I used an adjective that accurately
actually it's a noun
mo⋅ron
ɒn, ˈmoʊr-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation
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/ˈmɔr
1.
a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment.
2.
Psychology. a person of borderline intelligence in a former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69.
;-)
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