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I’m glad to report that this no longer happens and that the public has been encouraged by subsequent administrations to regard scientists as leading sources of expertise in their fields, second only to corporate CEOs, senators from Oklahoma, and psychics. »

January 27th, 2007

Yeah, marsupials and placentals are indistinguishable from one another…if you sketch them out in crayon. Pharyngula: They make laughingstocks of themselves, don’t they?

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