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Taxpayer-Funded Duck Penis Researcher Now Studying Whale Penises
Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 21, 2107 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 04/21/2017 6:00:50 AM PDT by kevcol

A leading researcher on a ridiculed taxpayer-funded study of duck penises is now using her expertise on orca whales and is going to the "March for Science" to protest budget cuts.

Patricia Brennan, a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, worked on the duck penis study that received $384,949 from the National Science Foundation, a grant that was funded through the 2009 stimulus package. The study looked at the differences in the corkscrew-shaped penises of ducks.

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TOPICS: Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: duckpenis; mountholyokecollege; nsf; obamastimulus; patriciabrennan; researchers; stimulus; taxes; universities; waste
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1 posted on 04/21/2017 6:00:50 AM PDT by kevcol
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2 posted on 04/21/2017 6:01:07 AM PDT by kevcol
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Well, they always say to have a great career, do what you love...


3 posted on 04/21/2017 6:02:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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Such terrible waste.


4 posted on 04/21/2017 6:02:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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This is going to be an interesting thread. Years ago I knew a man who studied mayfly genitalia. Evidently they are proportionately huge.


5 posted on 04/21/2017 6:04:43 AM PDT by Mercat
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“stimulus”?, “package”?


6 posted on 04/21/2017 6:04:46 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Well, they always say to have a great career, do what you love...

Love? Or, do you mean envy.

7 posted on 04/21/2017 6:05:50 AM PDT by C210N
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Somewhere here is a Bill Clinton joke...


8 posted on 04/21/2017 6:05:54 AM PDT by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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9 posted on 04/21/2017 6:06:18 AM PDT by kevcol
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Is her hairhat a cultural appropriation?


10 posted on 04/21/2017 6:08:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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11 posted on 04/21/2017 6:08:42 AM PDT by simpson96
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The Official Government Pecker Head.


12 posted on 04/21/2017 6:14:37 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Heh! You never know... :-)


13 posted on 04/21/2017 6:15:21 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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Free Willy!!


14 posted on 04/21/2017 6:16:29 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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She started out as a geoduck biologist but couldn’t handle it.


15 posted on 04/21/2017 6:17:24 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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Moved on to bigger things, has she?


16 posted on 04/21/2017 6:21:51 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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"Taxpayer-Funded Duck Penis Researcher Now Studying Whale Penises"

I can't get no ... satisfaction!

17 posted on 04/21/2017 6:24:25 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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18 posted on 04/21/2017 6:25:16 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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What a quack.


19 posted on 04/21/2017 6:27:28 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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And now you know why Donald Duck goes around without pants.


20 posted on 04/21/2017 6:45:10 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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