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 research projects and we found an enormous number of them focused on homosapiens. I kid you not.”
When asked by a teenage audience member to explain what was wrong with this research Palin said
“You probably are a homosapiens no? Or have many friends that are? What we need to do is spend money on helping people change and not on studying these homosapiens”
The teen tried to respond but was escorted forcefully out of the hall by security while Palin continued on in her meeting. At the end of the meeting Palin returned to the topic of science research and said “If elected, the McCain-Palin ticket will reallocate federal funds to eliminate waste on topics like homosapiens and fruit flies. Enough is enough.”
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What’s the over/under on the predictable outcome here? 😛
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I hope this is a fake. I mean… there is only a finite amount of stupidity to share between all living things, right? Right? Please, tell me I’m right…
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My calendar says Oct 27, not Apr 1. What’s your angle?
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Also, Guam has zero EC votes.
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It;s labelled “Fake science news” in the labels. I just figured it would be obvious that this was a joke. I know it is not April 1, but I post fake science news here pretty often …. maybe I should start a new “Fake Science News” blog?
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Oh – and the Guam thing was a hint that this was fake …
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If you are using a RSS reader the labels don’t so up (atleast in google reader).
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ahh … well sorry about that … I guess RSS readers only tell part of the story
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The scary part about this fake news is that it is so believable.
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