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Saturday, October 25, 2008

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).

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  1. That woman positively revels in ignorance.

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  2. Wow.
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    But ya know Joe, she knows all about autism and being the parent of a special child.

    <cynicism=maximum>
    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.

    </cynicism>

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  3. not sure, but my guess from the minimal description she gives she means "tru fruit flies" - the Tephritids, and not Drosophila.

    Still 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.

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  4. uh, that's "true", not "tru" - sorry for not spell checking!

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