http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/sarah_palin_ignorant_and_antis.php
Pharyngula
(Blog by PZ Myers, biologist and associate professor at the
University of Minnesota, Morris)
Posted on: October 24, 2008 10:17 PM
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.
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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
whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that
have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit
fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
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The "Puddinhead" in the title is an allusion to the first chapter of Mark Twain's book _The Tragedy of Puddinhead Wilson_, which I highly recommend:
Once you read it, it'll keep back to you, because this situation constantly recurs, but is also impossible to put in words that fully express the mockery it merits.
Michael