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Defending public investment in entomology

awild | March 9, 2010

Watch beetle guru Anthony Cognato trying to deal with Fox News ignoramus Tucker Carlson: It isn't news that Fox News isn't, um, news. Nor is it news that Fox can't grasp the benefits of public investment in knowledge creation- perhaps because actual knowledge is anathema to their business model. But I digress. I'm going to complain instead that Cognato missed out (or was edited out) on a major talking point to counter Fox's bluster.Â Fox pretends Cognato just sidled up to suckle at the stimulus teat while the getting was good. A university welfare queen, or something.Â But that's simply…

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