NY Times blatantly pandering to Bush voters

[JPJones]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/science/21gene.html

"At the time of its first report, the consortium that decoded the human genome had failed to close 147,821 gaps in the DNA sequence of the 24 pairs of human chromosomes. These gaps, stretches of DNA resistant to the usual sequencing methods, have now been reduced to just 341. The total size of the human genome is 3.08 billion units of DNA, the consortium now estimates. Besides the 341 gaps, a special structural DNA at the center and tips of each chromosome continues to defy current sequencing."

Or as Maureen Dowd has said:
Dowd: Because Karl Rove thinks that if the Bush White House gets four million more evangelical votes than they did last time it ensures Bush's re-election, which means he's not his dad. And so they've dragged poor Laura Bush out to go for this, what Lee Atwater used to call the extra-chromosome conservatives.

[noahmijo]

1. They endorsed Kerry (The NY Times)

[The Jacobin]

2. what?

:wtf:

[JPJones]

3. OK, I'll fill you in

We have 23 pairs of chromosomes. But if it's in the New York Times, it must be true.