Do you remember last week when Palin spoke about how she wanted to be the point person in a McCain administration to stop government funded research on fruit flies and to instead fund research aimed at helping special needs children?

"...some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"

From over at BuzzFlash.com today, a reader/contributor: Kathy E. Mitchell, Ph.D., Biophysicist writes:

Memo to Palin: Fruit Fly Researchers Receive Nobel Prize for Medicine for Advancing the Understanding of Birth Defects in Humans.
NOBEL PRIZE FOR GENETICS OF DEVELOPMENT 1995 STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Three biologists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their pioneering work on the genetic control of embryonic development. The researchers work with the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly provided key information on factors influencing human embryology and birth defects.

As Barack said (after the tire inflation kerfuffle), "It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant."