is all over my face when I read the following in an article on UK MSN:

Five-year-old finds dinosaur bone

A five-year-old girl has found fossilised bones from an Ice Age rhinoceros on a day out with her family at a water park.

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A case of bad science awareness among our "meejer", as we call them in England.  A case for a polite feedback letter, if only they gave us the facility.

Now I know there was a presidential election recently, but would there be a case for a polite, and I mean polite, letter or two to Sarah Palin, now that there's no more political capital to be made out of the fruit-fly incident?  I don't think that the "na nana na na!" attitude that so many took did anything for the status of science.