What's frivolous about basic research like this?
Dave
Paul Cherubini wrote:
Jason L Kindall wrote:
Viewed alone, it might be pretty hard to justify
research on fruit flies to the average Joe (plumber
or six-pack). Connect it with autism or human health
and then it becomes more palatable to t
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The underlying issue is not whether the government should fund fruit fly
research, but whether the public recognises cheap shots at meaningless
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My view is that the real value of a scientific education i
Jason L Kindall wrote:
> Viewed alone, it might be pretty hard to justify
> research on fruit flies to the average Joe (plumber
> or six-pack). Connect it with autism or human health
> and then it becomes more palatable to the public.
Perhaps Sarah Palin and the average Joe's are refering
to t
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I just read an interesting CNN interview with Charles Barkley about this
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Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera writes:
> This paper answers the question:
>
> Warner, D. A., and R. Shine. 2008. The adaptive significance of
> temperature-dependent sex determination in a reptile. Nature 451,
> 566-568.
The Warner & Shine paper above resurrects the 30-year old Charnov-Bull model for
Anti-intellectualism and name calling are a problem all around
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My 8th-grader came home yesterday saying:
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The Joe I referred to was Joe six-pack the plumber who seems to be the main
voter in the current US election. I do not think that anti-intellectual
snobbery is mainly or even largely due to intellectual elitism. Almost all
the scientists and academics I know are either passive with regard to the
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I admit an imperfect knowledge, and one perhaps somewhat biased by USA
provincialism, but it seems that part of this phenomenon must be laid to the
researchers themselves, and to a great extent to the academic community at
large. I do not suggest that any given professor can single-handedly crea
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If talking about fruit fly research is hurting McCain's poll numbers, it's
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Hi,
This paper answers the question:
Warner, D. A., and R. Shine. 2008. The adaptive significance of
temperature-dependent sex determination in a reptile. Nature 451,
566-568.
Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera
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Hi, Thilina, et al.,
I don't think there is any single or simple answer to this question.
First of all, as Wirt Atmar's answer point's out, historical factors are
certainly very important. Some evolutionary "decisions" were made in the
Carboniferous, and we are still living with the consequ
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