Posted on 06/10/2011 10:05:22 AM PDT by Freemarkets101
Here is the latest scheme by the federal government in subjecting taxpayers' funds to absurd "pet" projects. And it is one that could possibly win the award for the biggest bureaucratic swindle ever - not to mention, it presents a severe moral dilemma.
CNSNews reports:
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the federal government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent $3,634,807 over the past decade funding research that involves getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine and then studying their behavior, including during different phases of the female monkeys’ menstrual cycles.
One "revelation" the study found was that monkeys smoking cocaine showed "dilated pupils and slightly agitated, hyperactive behavior," much similar to humans. Bloodshot eyes and adverse behavior? Who would of thought?
In 2001, the NIH contributed a $328,364 grant to a study called "A Primate Model of Drug Abuse: Intervention Strategies," a model that analyzed drug abuse on monkeys, to evaluate "behavioral and pharmacological treatment interventions." Administration of the study included oral drug self-administration and smoking. Further, the study was to examine vulnerability factors, such as the "sex and phase of the menstrual cycle as well as patterns/duration of access to drugs." And the NIH did not discriminate against any form of drug, as they subjected the monkeys to "cocaine, ethanol, heroin, methadone and phencyclidine (PCP)."
Think we will be hearing from PETA anytime soon, or will the typical hypocricy that envelopes the liberal schema prevent all forms of opposition?
Our dope smoking monkey study is a failure!.....
The test results were “unexpected”.
They could have just studied me and saved a whole lot of money.
I would’ve become a test subject and only charged 1.7million$
Why not use humans? They would do it for free. Those dang monkeys must be union!
I’m going to your next party...
At least they didn’t asphyxiate the monkeys this time.
I thought the abundant anecdotal evidence of drugs doing very bad things to people would have been sufficient. But hey, some $4M later we know for sure. Great. Just great.
Maybe Congress can raise the debt ceiling for more studies. I’ve heard that jumping in front of a moving car is a bad thing, but that’s just based on observation. We really need about $4- 7M of tossing monkeys in front of Buick’s to be sure.
Tar. Feathers. Solution.
Is that what Bill Clinton is doing these days?
It’s bad enough that they use taxpayer money for this, but why do they let them out to drive in my neighborhood?
All they really needed to do was troll around at democrats underground!
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