Via a Bitter Twitter (or should that be Bitter Tweet?) I found this:
The federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don’t like to wear condoms, a project government watchdogs say is a nearly-half-a-million-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
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But the $423,500 grant for the study is just a crumb in the NIH pie. The NIH spends $29 billion each year to help fund thousands of health studies at home and abroad.
But some questionable queries have come under close scrutiny, including a $400,000 study being conducted in bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk; a $2.6 million study dedicated to teaching prostitutes in China to drink less while having sex on the job; and a $178,000 study to better understand why drug-abusing prostitutes in Thailand are at greater risk for HIV infection.
I presume this is part of Obama’s stimulus package. If you were to ask me I would say we should stop stimulating him.
Man, they should have asked me first, I’d have given them all the answers – for half the price!
Beat me to it – and under bid me too.