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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, much better than figuring out how to prevent and respond to a pandemic.
How old do fruit flies even get???
Thanks once again to the UK Daily Mail for
reporting the stories the lapdog US MEdia chooses to ignore
Origami condoms are very useful for activities held during Sex Week on college campuses.
“How old do fruit flies even get?”
Let’s do a study.
A million bucks would probably fund my retirement very, very nicely, with some $$$ left over.
I like that idea a whole lot better than investigating the sex lives of fruit flies.
My God this administration is so screwed up it’s unbelievable.
http://www.orkin.com/flies/fruit-fly/life-span-of-fruit-fly/
The average natural life span of fruit fly adults in optimal temperatures is 40 to 50 days.
chimpanzees with the best poop-flinging skills are also the best communicators
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so theyre good at speak pure CS ???
So, somebody got the contract, paid somebody else $20,000 to write the program for the website.
Then, the original somebody pocketed $237,000.
Not bad.
Every penny is used for real government and not these bullshit grants.
Imagine a police force, fire department and lo0cal government .. road crews and such ... and nothing else
Imagine no foreign aid of any kind to any one
Imagine the government had all it needed on 5%
I'm no math whiz (although I DO whiz on math ... ), but I'll bet the US could operate on 2% of our income if all it did was what it was supposed to ... govern, watch, protect.
Imagine your 1000 dollar paycheck netting you $980
bump
Well gee, how can this be..according to the dumb bimbo last night on Hannity, its because of Republicans and those darn budget cuts that the CDC doesnt have enough money to fight Ebola
“Sit back, close your eyes and imagine ....
Every penny is used for real government and not these bullshit grants.
Imagine a police force, fire department and lo0cal government .. road crews and such ... and nothing else”
Pick up your local phone book and look under US Government. It is page after page of offices and departments you have never heard of and will never contact in your lifetime. Same thing with State offices. It doesn’t matter where in the US you are, this is nationwide.
What’s the age of consent for a fruit fly?
Reminds me of the current occupant of the White House.
lolz
Wanna bet it’s someone she knew from the past who pocketed the $237.000.
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