Silly Flies

Todays PDI (Public Display of Ignorance) from 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

The newest "scientific study" to be ridiculed as an example of wasteful earmarks is fruit flies. I know at least one loyal reader would have taken the same high school biology class as me and might remember fruit flies being one of if not the best way to study genetics. Now that bears and planet-ariums have already been used, I wonder what the next scapegoat will be....