I kind of knew this all along, but to each his own.
The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.
The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to autism spooked parents worldwide and immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never fully recovered.
See Sarah speak. See Sarah give her very first policy speech. See Sarah speak about special needs. See Sarah speak about autism. See Sarah belittle earmarks for "projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. "
"Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not."
See Sarah scoff at science. See Sarah look like the complete fucking idiot she is in not realizing that research in fruit flies led to discoveries that boosted autism research.
Pharyngula: This idiot woman, this blind, shortsighted ignoramus, this pretentious clod, mocks basic research and the international research community. You damn well better believe that there is research going on in animal models — what does she expect, that scientists should mutagenize human mothers and chop up baby brains for this work? — and countries like France and Germany and England and Canada and China and India and others are all respected participants in these efforts.
Yes, scientists work on fruit flies. Some of the most powerful tools in genetics and molecular biology are available in fruit flies, and these are animals that are particularly amenable to experimentation. Molecular genetics has revealed that humans share key molecules, the basic developmental toolkit, with all other animals, thanks to our shared evolutionary heritage (something else the wackaloon from Wasilla denies), and that we can use these other organisms to probe the fundamental mechanisms that underlie core processes in the formation of the nervous system — precisely the phenomena Palin claims are so important.
This is what happens in an unorganized, dying campaign and political party that doesn't vet its candidates or even have the sense to have scientific minds peruse the speech to verify that the contents are accurate.
But perhaps Rev. Muthee got a copy of her speech and although he was upset that sacrificing a goat wasn't in the plan to advance discoveries for early indication of autism, blessed it with chicken's blood, shook a bone over it and exorcised the witches out so that Palin would have a successful speech.
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