As you probably know, if you've been following the campaign, both McCain and Palin have ridiculed public expenditures for scientific research involving fruit flies and grizzly bears. Palin recently made a flippant response about research being done on fruit flies in Paris, France. These remarks are obviously aimed at people who are woefully ill-informed about the way things are. Here's the last paragraph of an excellent article by Christopher Hitchens about why this money is being spent on this research.
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 the rest of the article, and be prepared to counter stupid remarks about how are tax money is spent.
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