Mike sent me this.
WASHINGTON - The stimulus package is living up to its provocative name by funding a bacchanalia of behavioral sex research, a Post analysis reveals.
Hmmmm. I wonder if that research is shovel ready?
The next fiscal year is set to be one of the friskiest ever in the nation's science labs, as researchers probe the ins and outs of sex patterns among humans and even some of our four-legged friends.
I don't think that is the kind of stimulus we were looking for in the porkulus bill.
Among the most titillating grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health are studies that would:* Examine "barriers to correct condom use" at Indiana University, at a cost of $221,000.
* Study "hookups" among adolescents at Syracuse University. Study's cost: $219,000.
* Evaluate "drug use as a sex enhancer" in an analysis of "high-risk community sex networks" at the University of Illinois, Chicago. That study will cost $123,000.
* Study how methamphetamine, thought to produce an "insatiable need" for sex among users, "enhances the motivation for female rat sexual behavior." Some $28,000 has been awarded for the University of Maryland at Baltimore study.
Our tax dollars at work. Who controls Congress and the presidency?
Posted by denny at August 24, 2009 12:13 PMAre those continuations of existing grants? or are they actually new grants? Actually- these are all grant-funded studies. What is the ACTUAL grant? Where is that grant in the stimulus bill?
By the way, those are very cheap studies. Almost nothing, really.
The federal government does a lot of research- I assume you understand that and that much of the "innovation" in the medical field comes from this government funded primary research.
Posted by: wtf on August 24, 2009 12:26 PMProblem is I was never asked how I wanted my tax dollars to be used. Who controls Congress and presidency? Crooks! That's who.
Posted by: phthaloblu on August 24, 2009 01:41 PMSex research: Now that's what I call stimulating. And maybe now we will solve that whole horny rat on meth problem.
Posted by: Darrell G on August 24, 2009 03:12 PMI wonder how many millions of well-paying jobs this waste of tax dollars will create.
Posted by: thatjerryguy on August 24, 2009 04:07 PMI wonder how much they pay the condom testers.
Posted by: TalkinHorse on August 24, 2009 09:27 PMBy the way, those are very cheap studies. Almost nothing, really.
You betcha! And a little bit here and a little bit there ... adds up! It's the same principle I use when money is tight around here. The first thing to go is my coffee addiction. Cumulatively, it makes a difference!
Posted by: PeggyU on August 24, 2009 10:33 PMwtf.......
What government agency do you work for or are you just plain stupid......By the way, those are very cheap studies, almost nothing really!
You are the kind of idiot the Government depends on to not notice the waste & squandered billions our Senators & Congress vote for & approve each year.
Were there to be a legitimate program to streamline government & to rein in expenditures to only those necessary or for strategic activities......We could have a massive reduction in the cost of Government with tax reductions.
Do all of us a favor...either wake up or do not vote, we have more then enough idiot`s voting as it is now.
Posted by: dudley1 on August 25, 2009 01:12 PMAnd WTF, most of the medical inovations DO NOT come from government research. They come from private corporations that have a vested interest in the research they do. The only time "govt" research has really done anything worthwhile is when it is put under the gun, as Kennedy did to NASA in the 60's. Otherwise, all the major medical and scientific breakthroughs of the last several decades have come from the private sector.
Posted by: Ray on August 25, 2009 02:30 PM