Sarah Palin:
Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
Reality:
Now scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for these nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.
The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism …
Palin, who McCain claims is an expert on autism, here reveals her ignorance by parroting smart-alecky remarks written for her for small political gain without regard to reality.
This country cannot afford to let ignorance continue to lead our world.