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political science: more anti-science from Reps
added on 25 Oct 2008
Sorta like McCain and the bears and the projector: ThinkProgress had the story.
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political science: more anti-science from Reps
posted to Everyday Scientist on 22 Sep 2009
Sorta like McCain and the bears and the projector: ThinkProgress had the story.
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Sarah Palin: Ignorant and anti-science
posted to Pharyngula on 22 Sep 2009
This is too much. Sarah Palin gave a policy speech today in which she claimed that she wanted more support for children with disabilities, more tools to test for disorders, and while also decrying the expense of scientific research. Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? [&helli...
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Now it's personal: Sarah Palin attacks my work
posted to bjoern.brembs.blog : a neuroscientist's blog on 22 Sep 2009
Now with everybody and their grandmothers already blogging about the US presidential campaigns and this being a largely scientific blog based in Europe, it was easy to ignore US politics. It was easy despite having lived in Texas for almost four years, still traveling there several times a year a...
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McCain Palin going after fruit flies
posted to The Tree of Life on 22 Sep 2009
As if scientists did not have enough reasons to vote against McCain-Palin who seem to have decided that Bush was overly supportive of science. Now Palin is attacking of all things "fruit-fly research." Lovely. Proof that they are both clueless (not knowing what a fruit fly is probably) and ant...
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About That Fruit Fly Research...
posted to Mike the Mad Biologist on 22 Sep 2009
...it's applied research. As far as I can tell, the McCain campaign is referring to a study of olive fruit flies which are an agricultural pest. From the congressman who wrote the earmark: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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Fruit flies. I kid you not.
posted to Genomicron on 22 Sep 2009
I have complained recently about the state of basic research support in Canada, as the current government is pushing for more short-sighted, applied, industry-oriented work. This is as nothing compared to the attitude of some politicians south of the 49th.Here is how a recent paper of mine began...
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Beyond the Palin
posted to Bad Astronomy on 22 Sep 2009
OK, why be coy? I think Sarah Palin is a disaster. You know all the reasons: no experience, chosen cynically, a past that can charitably be called checkered, no understanding of the job for which she’s been picked, stirring up vile emotions in the base, blatant hypocrisy, $150,000 for cloth...
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ENOUGH!!
posted to JUNIORPROF on 22 Sep 2009
Comrade PhysioProf, Mike the Mad Biologist and PZ have already hit the highlights on Palin’s remarks on the workhorse of the biomedical enterprise, the fruitfly, so not much more comment from me is needed; however, I cannot help myself. Ice Queen, go back to your cave! Well, now that that&...
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Palin, autism and fruitflies - it does not add up
posted to A Blog Around The Clock on 22 Sep 2009
You have probably heard that Governor Palin, in a recent speech contradicted herself within a span of a couple of sentences. So, she said that "Early identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism, can make a life-changing difference.", then in the next breath dissed that sam...
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Easy to check out
posted to A Man With A Ph.D. on 22 Sep 2009
McCain Palin going after fruit flies: [Via The Tree of Life] As if scientists did not have enough reasons to vote against McCain-Palin who seem to have decided that Bush was overly supportive of science. Now Palin is attacking of all things “fruit-fly research.” Lovely. Proof that ...
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posted to Pharyngula on 22 Sep 2009
I think we can all already see the defense the right wing is throwing up to rationalize Sarah Palin's inane remarks about "fruit fly research in Paris, France": she wasn't disparaging all research into fruit flies, but only one specific earmark for studying agricultural pests. Baloney. The cont...
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They are NOT fruit flies
posted to evolgen on 22 Sep 2009
In the recent kerfuffle over Sarah Palin's disparaging remarks about "fruit fly" research, an important point was missed by the general public, scientists, and even Drosophila geneticists: she wasn't talking about Drosophila. Now, this point has been clarified by a few people (notably Mike the ...
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posted to The Tree of Life on 22 Sep 2009
Sarah Palin today has followed up her attack on fruit fly research by condemning much of the NIH Budget and a variety of other scientific earmarks. At a town hall meeting yesterday while campaigning in Guam, Palin said"We asked federal agencies to give us a summary of key words relating to resea...
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Election watch...
posted to The Great Beyond on 18 Nov 2008
After McCain’s attack on earmarks for planetariums, the Republican ticket has alienated another section of the scientific community. Sarah Palin, the potential vice president, made the following statement in a recent speech:Where does a lot of that earmark money end up? ... Sometimes these dollar...
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Who needs to know about bears, planetariums or fruit flies anyway? To hell with science!
posted to bjoern.brembs.blog : a neuroscientist's blog on 22 Sep 2009
In the beginning, there was bear DNA. Then the projector for the quintessential planetarium experience. Last Friday it was research on fruit flies. Which research project a semi-educated Republican politician doesn't understand will be next? Most people who read this obscure blog will either be U...
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posted to Pharyngula on 22 Sep 2009
McCain once again whined about studying bear DNA, and it's clear that the decrepit old man doesn't have a clue about the value of biological research. But the other interesting revelation is that while denouncing earmarks for studying bear DNA, overhead projectors, or fruit fly research, the comp...
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Research is never simply an earmark
posted to bjoern.brembs.blog : a neuroscientist's blog on 22 Sep 2009
Now that we all know that the specific research Sarah Palin was referring to was about a different genus of Dipterans, Tephritidae, and not Drosophila. Apparently, these fruit flies are an important pest threatening Californian crops and the farmers who depend on them for their livelyhoods. The R...
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The Trouble With Tephritidae
posted to The Neurocritic on 22 Sep 2009
A True Fruit Fly - Tephritidae (via Myrmecos Blog)Bjoern Brembs has written extensively about the latest anti-science commentary by VP candidate Sarah Palin, who said...Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You've heard about some of these pet projects they really don't make a...
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Sarah Palin takes on Drosophila (those are fruit flies, right? I wouldn't want to say something stupid on national TV again)
posted to Coffee Talk on 22 Sep 2009
Recently, Sarah Palin was asked where she would come up with the funds to support her $13 billion special needs education project. Obviously, she hadn’t thought of an appropriate response ahead of time, so she came up with a “brilliant” idea: cut excessive spending on pet proj...
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Shoo fly
posted to Spoonful of Medicine on 22 Sep 2009
Fruit fly researchers hold on tight to your charges: Sarah Palin has it out for your favorite organism.In a recent policy speech on special needs children the vice-presidential candidate disparaged a congressional earmark for “Fruit fly research in Paris, France,” adding incredulously, “I kid yo...
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posted to A Blog Around The Clock on 22 Sep 2009
As a follow-up to the yesterday's press release, Dr. Manzoor Bhat and Joseph Piven, M.D., researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who use the Drosophila model system to study neurexin and its implications in the development of autism, have now released the video response - ...
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