"I'm going to be as restrained and measured as I possibly can about this. But this is the most mindless, ignorant, uninformed comment that we have seen from Governor Palin so far, and there's been a lot of competition for that prize."
-- Newsweek's Richard Wolffe on Countdown, reacting to Sarah Palin's offhand dismissal of fruit fly research which, apparently unbeknownst to her, has already led to advances in understanding autism
