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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"His famous uncle story was told incorrectly for years ... not just once."
I think this is a good argument for you to keep focusing on. In these times people are really concerned about . . . picking apart the details of Obama's uncle's military service during World War II.
"Ah, well. As a mom of someone with special needs, at least it was funny getting a snarky response back in re: to my polite suggestion lol. Life can be inadvertently hilarious sometimes :)"
As a father of someone with special needs I take offense at everything you are saying here. The horse you are on is mighty mighty high here.
Edited 10/26/2008 8:59 pm ET by soupyduck
no, picking apart
Who said it was pork?
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