One thing that didn’t get mentioned often enough when idiots were speculating who Trig’s mom was – and this is probably because those people were scurrilous fools with little interest in reality – is the improbability of a 16 year-old giving birth to a child with Down Syndrome. That chart shows that the probability for a 30 year-old is less than 1 in 1000; it’s my understanding that as age decreases from there, so does that probability. However, as age increases, so does the probability, such that by age 44, Sarah Palin’s age, 1 out of 35 live births have Down Syndrome.

So given a child with Down Syndrome, and two possible mothers, one age 44 and one aged 16, it takes a unique mindset to come up with a conspiracy theory that the 44 year-old faked a pregnancy for the 16 year-old. It takes nothing less than uninterested ignorance to latch on to that conspiracy theory.