The Honorable Fruit Fly
Submitted by admin on Wednesday, November 12 2008No Comment
She said what?
Thankfully we don’t have to endure another 4 more years of anti-science & intellectualism since the defeat of the McCain/Palin ticket. When Palin implied that the US govt was wasting its money on researching fruit flies (and doing it in Paris, France – gasp), she showed incredible ignorance about the significance of fruit flies to scientific research in the fields of genetics, cell biology, and neuroscience to name but a few.
To read more about the importance of fruit flies in research and to read the lively, sometimes vitriolic exchange among readers of this particular post about Palin, scientific research and welfare mothers (yes everything got dragged into this argument), check out biochemicalsoul.com.
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