Fruit Fly Research is Wastful Spending?
Apparently, fruit fly research is wasteful spending, along the lines of 3 million Bear "paternity testing" and 3 million dollar "overhead projectors". That sucks for the research being done on autism using the fruit fly model. I wonder if Palin knows anything autism?
UPDATE: Bjorn Brembs takes offense to the attack on his research area. He basically lays the smack-down (not that that is hard to do or anything).
That woman positively revels in ignorance.
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But ya know Joe, she knows all about autism and being the parent of a special child.
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And...and.. and I know how to fix autism, I have the answer to that, and I know how to get it done.I've had the answer to that for years. And when I'm president, Sarah and I will fix it.
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not sure, but my guess from the minimal description she gives she means "tru fruit flies" - the Tephritids, and not Drosophila.
ReplyDeleteStill research money well spent! Again from her brief description I am guessing this research is very applied -since it is dealing with a pest species of olives that could be moved between countries.
uh, that's "true", not "tru" - sorry for not spell checking!
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