[Pontiac]

Next, she sent the purified genetic material to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where it was reduced to pure carbon pellets and split into different carbon isotopes by weight in a particle accelerator, allowing the researchers to calculate the ratio between carbon-12 and carbon-14.

Interesting study but this was hugely expensive.

This is an important discovery but I can’t say that it was worth the money if it was paid for from tax payer funds.

[neverdem]

This is an important discovery but I can’t say that it was worth the money if it was paid for from tax payer funds.

If gov't grant money was going to be spent anyway, then I'll take it, especially if the instruments would otherwise be idle. It's about as good as you're going to get in advancing basic neurology, IMHO.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“This is an important discovery but I can’t say that it was worth the money if it was paid for from tax payer funds. “

Certainly worth more than spending money teaching African men how to wash their wieners after sex!