Comments on: Presidential Politics Meet Parasites!

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:39:00 +0000

Yes. And the olive fruit fly ONLY attacks Olive Trees. And the EARMARK–outside of millions already spent on OLFF control in California–was given as a POLITICAL favor to Thompson’s donor community. There are already very effective methods of Organic Pest control available to Olive growers. If they want the addition of African wasps–they can pay for it themselves. They’ve got the money.It’s not like eliminating $50.00 a gallon artisan crafted olive oil from the American food supply is going to cause widespresd hunger.

You can try to spin this sick little episode of Palin bashing all you like.

The fact is that PZ Myers, Hitchens and the rest have spread a hateful disinformation campaign with false information. It had not a damned thing to do with Drosophila. They just–in a very unscientific manner–assumed that it did. TO any rational, honest, thinking person–they are the ones who look “anti-science” because they are promoting the awarding of funding based not on merit–but on a congressman’s donor list.

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:57:00 +0000

Wow! The bottled green stuffed olives I buy are from Spain and Agentina.

Do some bombing there, too.

By: mandydax

mandydax — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:35:12 +0000

The wasps then drink up the larvae’s bodily fluids and crawl out, leaving behind the dried up corpse of their host.

I think you meant the larvae drink up the fly’s fluids, no?

I saw PZ’s excellent detective work on this. I was disappointed a little because on RD.net, Richard Dawkins coined the word “Drosophilistinism.” It made me happy.

By: meanlouise.com » Blog Archive » because my head didn’t hurt enough

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:08:41 +0000

[...] wanted to add, however, that The Loom, a science blog at Discover Magazine, is willing to cut Palin a sliver of slack as there is…UNC Health Care’s post, “In defense of fruit flies and basic medical research” and [...]

By: Mus

Mus — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:43:04 +0000

“When Palin next reads your blog, I’m sure she’ll realize the error of her ways.”

OMG, she can read?!!!

By: EastwoodDC

EastwoodDC — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:57:10 +0000

The parasites stand on the back of a turtle, and then it’s turtles all the way down.

By: Scott Belyea

Scott Belyea — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:18:44 +0000

Fascinating stuff. When Palin next reads your blog, I’m sure she’ll realize the error of her ways.

“…if you wait long enough, everything comes down to parasites.”

Odd … all these years, I thought it was turtles …