Turns Out It Wasn't a Criminal or a Paternity Issue -- Just Plain Good Science

Over at US News & World Report, John Aloysius Farrell blogs to set the record straight about the grizzly bear DNA project that John McCain complained about in last week's presidential debate. It's a pretty funny column, in which Farrell discusses the point of the research project -- namely, to get a population count of grizzly bears using DNA as a quicker, cheaper method than sending rangers out to personally take a census. GTO's favorite piece of trivia: evidently, McCain voted for the bill that issued the funds for the DNA project in the first place.