Memo To Sarah Palin: Fruit Fly Research Has Led To Advances In Understanding Autism (Video) »
Posted By VotersUnite 8 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsAlaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose youngest son Trig, has Down Syndrome, is said to be a great champion for special needs children and their families. Today Gov. Palin gave her first address on Congressional policy should she and John McCain be elected November 4th. During her presentation she mocked the scientific study of fruit flies in Paris, France. However, fruit flies are used by researchers to study the origins of autism, one of the special needs afflicting some of the very children Gov. Palin was discussing in her speech.
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diogenes488 months, 2 weeks ago
WAY OUT OF CONTEXT!
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Fruit Fly Research she is talking about is the pork program.
Representative Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) for $211,509 in olive fruit fly research in Paris, France.
Are we trying to expand what she has said?
I guess she is not a Washington DC insider, so she does not understand we need these pork programs to get important bills passed. Shame on her.
I just wondered why the honorable representative from California get a United States research program funded. We surely have a similar research in the US or need to start one if it is really that important.-
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jordan118 months, 2 weeks ago
What the CA Senator asked for wasn't 'pork.' It was to boost the study of olive fruit fly infestation, which affects 4000 jobs annually in CA, not to mention lost sales and therefore lost tax revenue to both the State and Federal governments. As a major player in CA's economy, figuring out how to stop the destruction of the crop is a necessity, not some frivilous request.
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If you're looking for frivilous, how about a teapot museum in Virginia, which was given millions? And remember the bridge to nowhere? Well the road to the bridge to nowhere was still built. A very nice, never used road that ends where the bridge would have begun. That also cost taxpayers millions, including you if you pay taxes.
Palin obviously didn't do her homework, and 'assumed' that research on fruit flies was silly. All she could conjur up was a tiny little bug that is of no significance to the human world. Well it has a HUGE significance, and studying it is NOT "pork." Oh yeah, I want a moron like her in charge of the free world. "You betcha." Her handlers give her moronic talking points, and rather than check on the relevance of them she just goes along. And she would do the same thing with whoever 'handled' her in the WH. It took me 10 minutes to find out that fruit fly research is CRUCIAL. But know knowthing Palin can't be bothered with checking things out. She's too busy getting her make up done. -
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diogenes21st8 months, 2 weeks ago
Just wanted to make sure nobody confuses me with this Diogenes.
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Very few of these so-called "pork" projects or earmarks are pure wastes of money. That is a fantasy that ricochets around the uninformed mind. How many of the critics of these things have actually not only looked at their role in the budget, but also at the details of the programs? Thanks to decades of so-called pork, we have dams, bridges, roads, transplant surgery techniques, vaccinations, military weapons, engineering techniques, steel-making formulas, safer autos, and so on. If anyone wants to have a facts-at-20-paces duel, let's go.
Most of these pork programs create jobs, help our infrastructure, improve human health and move great ideas from the publics sphere (esp. universities) into the private sector,where they become profitable products and techniques that create more jobs. -
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lfergie8128 months, 2 weeks ago
diogenes48
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It would help if you found out what the fruit fly research is all about, like maybe reading the article, before showing your ignorance.
FTA "However, fruit flies are used by researchers to study the origins of autism, one of the special needs afflicting some of the very children Gov. Palin was discussing in her speech."
Of course it would have been to Sarah Palin's best interest to find out what the "pork" was being used for before showing her own ignorance. -
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miklkit8 months, 2 weeks ago
Fruit flies are a BIG DEAL here in California. We have had massive eradication programs going on for decades. The money for that study is chump change.
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OldBetty8 months, 2 weeks ago
Why can research only be done in the United States? Scientists cross bounderies in collaborations all the time, sharing results of studies for the good of all. And, yes, if you take the time to read up on it, this research is important.
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jordan118 months, 2 weeks ago
Fruit fly research:
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Studies under way to deal with fruit fly infestation on CA olive crops.
University of Oxford: Studies giving insight on aging
Studies being done on Alzheimers
Studies being done on how insulin works
Studies done on drugs to show generational affects. A fruit fly can show the affects on 3 generations in a month, & give drug approval faster for those needing the drugs.
Studies on neural disease
Studies on cell cycle regulation (helpful with understanding cancer cell growth)
Studies on the affect of genes by cancer drugs
Studies on Autism
Oh yeah, those pesky fruit flies. Shouldn't spend money on such frivilous research.-
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ETproductions8 months, 2 weeks ago
Fruit flies are incredibly valuable to research in genetic mutations because they breed so rapidly. They produce 7-800 eggs in a 20 to 30 day life span. So in a few years, scientist can observe the long term effects of a genetic mutation over tens of thousands of generations.
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Sarah Palin seems to be singularly incurious about the world around her. That's a common attribute of those who are absolutely certain that they already know everything worth knowing, a sentiment quite common among evangelicals.
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StevieGee8 months, 2 weeks ago
Well by golly, it doesn't say anything about fruit fly research in the Bible. Joe Sixpack can just wave them away when he's sittin on the porch and they come buzzin' around don't you know.
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Teech8 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't knock Pale-in! What would one expect her to know about science? She knows that money would be better spent on studying how to exorcise witchcraft. It would also go a long way at Nieman-Marcus.
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Just think of how many helicopter wolf hunts it would buy. Invite Cheney along, too. Just don't fly too low and get too close to those snarly wolves.
Besides, Sarah doesn't need science. She'll just look in the Bible or ask her nearest Christian fundamentalist pastor! -
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chuck-the-canuck8 months, 2 weeks ago
If it wasn't for scientific research, most of the republicans on these threads would be sitting in the dirt counting their toes, instead of sitting behind their keyboards, bombarding us with their delusional drivel.
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