Posted on 08/24/2005 8:37:24 AM PDT by hinterlander
One might expect the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to focus exclusively on advancing the health and development of humans—perhaps even with a special concentration on human children.
But since 2001, NICHD, a subdivision of the National Institutes of Health, has provided $1,178,450 to a "Fisheries and Wildlife" professor for research focusing at least in part on "giant panda habitats" in China's Wolong Nature Reserve.
NICHD, moreover, is not the only federal agency showering taxpayer money on this professor. A National Science Foundation grant that runs from 2002 to 2006 is scheduled to give him $1,111,407 to study the panda habitat, and another NSF grant in the 1990s paid him $321,055.
The $1-million-plus NICHD grant is titled, "Human Population/Environment Interactions (China)." "Since 1975," says the NIH abstract for the grant, "Wolong's human population has grown 66%, but the number of households has increased 115%. Each household garners resources needed to . . .
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Mission Creep............
Wait and see the money I get when they find out I have a unicorn preserve...
Granted, I like Michigan State, but this is ridiculous.
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