Posted on 12/18/2014 4:27:09 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Government Waste: The good news is the National Institutes of Health pulled the plug on a national children's health study because it was fatally flawed. The bad news is they wasted 10 years and $1.3 billion before they admitted it.
Congress mandated the National Children's Study as part of the Children's Health Act of 2000. The idea was to follow 100,000 newborns across the nation — in places ranging from urban California to the Florida swamps — until they turned 21, and measure how environmental and other factors affected their health.
Yet for the past 14 years, all the NIH managed to do was spend $1.3 billion figuring out how to conduct the massive effort and running some pilot experiments. The actual study wasn't scheduled to start officially until some time next year.
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So who will be fired for wasting over a billion dollars?
Oh, wait....it’s gubbmint
With such a long time line and unclear objectives and goals, my assessment is that it was used as an overall “get well” project for multiple NIH contracted researchers (e.g., Johns Hopkins and other government funded medical researchers)
You have it exactly backwards, he/she who figured out how to blow over a billion dollars is among the top 1-2 contenders for the next set of studies. Fes studies get past a few hundred million. This, this is big.
that was kind of my point.....
“With such a long time line and unclear objectives and goals, my assessment is that it was used as an overall “get well” project for multiple NIH contracted researchers (e.g., Johns Hopkins and other government funded medical researchers)” <p)
No doubt. HOw do you spend over One and a quarter billion dollars on any “study”?
Study results didn’t support preconceived liberal notions.
I say we fire the idiots who “mandated” it first. Then we can start on the idiots who actually blew all that money.
The studies will be planned until the plan is out of money.
Agree with all of that....
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