Comments on: Are Moths the New Lab Mice? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/09/08/are-moths-the-new-lab-mice/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:04:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joseph Smidt http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/09/08/are-moths-the-new-lab-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-25795 Joseph Smidt Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:04:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/09/08/are-moths-the-new-lab-mice/#comment-25795 Reminds me of the last election when a politician, whom I won't name, was complaining we spend so much money studying flies. What they didn't say was those fruit flies are one of the most cost effective ways to make real progress in ways that will really help out humans. Reminds me of the last election when a politician, whom I won’t name, was complaining we spend so much money studying flies.

What they didn’t say was those fruit flies are one of the most cost effective ways to make real progress in ways that will really help out humans.

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