Witches, Curses, and Your Family's Effort To Save You

Palin and the fruit fly

"How the vice-presidential candidate became a laughing-stock among scientists -- Down's syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, autism, diabetes, ageing research, cancers of all types: that's a minuscule range of diseases that have been and continue to be utterly dependent on the fruit fly. Eight seconds' worth of Googling would have revealed that to Palin. Maybe it's not obvious to the general public how basic research translates into clinically relevant knowledge. But so much of the information we have about the workings of genes and proteins and therefore diseases comes from studying these little critters.

Sarah Palin's comments display an attitude that is blatantly anti-science. Worse, it's lazy, ignorant and gleefully so. Somewhere along the line, the Republicans have endorsed a candidate who is so short-sighted and glib that she inadvertently mocks an indescribably important field of which she might have a personal knowledge. Whatever happens on November 4, the fruit fly's contribution to the public good will always far outweigh that of Sarah Palin, and she would do well to show some respect." ...(more)

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I've had fun sending links , articles and various you tube videos to the perplexed who can't fathom why Aunt Becky is sending them such crazy trashy forwarded e-mails about voodoo in Africa. These [and other] artifacts get passed on by those who never understood what that Google thing was all about.

Halloween is coming, and so is Election Day. An amazing number of people in the USA have already voted.

God bless and preserve us in this time of change and uncertainty.

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