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		lotsofmangos on Nov 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How a Shrimp Treadmill Became a Political Playthin... Reminds me of the research into French fruit flies that Palin tried to make the same political point with - http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2008/10/french-fruit-fly-f... I wonder if they just find it icky and are then rationalizing the politics afterwards.

jordanb on Nov 15, 2014 [–]

Palin shares her hatred of Fruit Fly research with Stalinist Soviet Russia[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

ljegou on Nov 15, 2014 | [–]

And her hatred about France (at the time) too.

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