Following on the coattails of Patrick's post, I have another research-related nugget. This one comes from one of my personal heroes, Christopher Hitchens.In his latest Slate piece, he takes a nice big bite out of McCain and (mostly) Sarah Palin in regards to their distaste for spending on scientific research (fruit flies!? polar bears!? SATAN!)
"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus.
Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."
Read Sarah Palin's War on Science
Sure she can shoot wolves from a helicopter, but can she make ice cream with tin cans, ice and rock salt?
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