Posted on 10/14/2014 9:17:14 AM PDT by maggief
The NIH budget included $2.4 million for a new condom design whose inventor is now being investigated for fraud
Another $939,000 taught scientists that male fruit flies prefer younger females
$257,000 went to create a companion website for first lady Michelle Obama's White House garden
It cost $592,000 to determine that chimpanzees with the best poop-flinging skills are also the best communicators, and another $117,000 to learn that most chimps are right-handed
NIH director Dr. Francis Collins complained Sunday that a lack of funding is behind his agency's failure to produce an Ebola vaccine in time to combat this year's epidemic
The $30 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health blamed tightening federal budgets on Monday for its inability to produce an Ebola vaccine, but a review of its grant-making history in the last 10 years has turned up highly unusual research that redirected precious funds away from more conventional public health projects.
The projects included $2.4 million to develop 'origami' condoms designed with Japanese folding paper in mind, and $939,000 to find out that male fruit flies prefer to romance younger females because the girl-flies' hormone levels drop over time.
Other winners of NIH grants consumed $325,000 to learn that marriages are happier when wives calm down more quickly during arguments with their husbands, and $257,000 to make an online game as a companion to first lady Michelle Obama's White House garden.
The agency also spent $117,000 in taxpayers' grant dollars to discover that most chimpanzees are right-handed.
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“”Reminds me of the current occupant of the White House.””
Now we know...we don’t have to puzzle any longer just what sits in that office. The best BS artist they could find....It’s scary just how many people he has fooled.
'Course .. all those people would have to get a real job, but ALSO in my mind is Rosie the riveter and the like from WW2
We can do it
Once again, the British Press doing the job our Press just refuses to do.
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