Posted on 01/30/2004 1:20:54 AM PST by Madstrider
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The director of the National Institutes of Health said his agency will continue to fund sex research, including studies involving pornography and prostitution that have been criticized by House Republicans.
"I fully support NIH's continued investment in research on human sexuality," Dr. Elia A. Zerhouni wrote in a letter to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, that bypassed the Republican committee chairmen who oversee the agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
One of the complainants in the ethics probe -- described under the pseudonym "Juanita" in Mr. Bailey's book -- consulted the professor in 1996 to obtain psychological approval for sex-change surgery. "Juanita" filed an affidavit with the university saying that two years after undergoing the surgery, she had sex with the professor. His book subsequently cited her behavior as validating Mr. Bailey's theories of sexuality.
NIH is "clueless" for defending Mr. Bailey, said University of Michigan professor Lynn Conway.
"Taxpayer money is not just being wasted in sex research at Northwestern University -- it's being used to exploit and defame transsexual women in the name of science," said Ms. Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was born male and underwent sex-change surgery in 1968.
A transsexual has sex with the professor who approved her sex-change surgery. He gets a federal grant, then is accused of violating federal research ethics laws for failing to get permission to use transsexuals -- including his one-night stand -- for his "research."
The NIH director tells Ted Kennedy he "fully supports" funding this sleazy research. But I guess the NIH director also "fully supports" married politicians drowning young campaign volunteers after driving drunk en route to a well-known local trysting spot.
Ethics!! Sex!! Science!! Kennedy!!
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