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Comment Strange days Gregory A Petsko Address: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. Email: petsko@ Published: 1 October 2007 Genome Biology 2007, 8:110 (doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-110) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2007/8/9/110 ? 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Its hard to do satire when reality is so bizarre as to be self- parodying. As I write this, the President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, has left his war-torn country for three weeks to travel to the United States. To consult with President Bush, you ask? No. To beg Congress for more money or more American troops? Nope. To appeal to the American people to support the US presence in Iraq? Not at all. He came here to lose weight. He has checked himself into what is non- euphemistically called a fat farm - a place that combines the Lightfoot, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, UK, refined that calculation to 23 October 4004 (BC) at 9 am (its not clear to me whether that was Greenwich Mean Time). In the Creation Museum, Adam and Eve live happily in the Garden of Eden alongside animatronic dinosaurs; computer animations show how plate tectonics could have produced tsunamis that covered the earth with water in about a month; the Tower of Babel explains the multitude of human languages, and so on. physical discipline of an army boot camp with the motivation of an evangelical tent meeting - all in the service of shedding unwanted pounds. Its the sort of place thats particularly popular with rich matrons. Surprisingly, the museum does not spend much effort disproving evolutionary ideas or proving creation. It is assumed that anyone who visits needs no convincing of the literal truth of the Bible - that, as one supporter wrote, Gods Word is pl