I don't really need to say anything more... Our tax dollars at work.
Hey, it’s legitimate research; just because you don’t like it doesn’t affect its legitimacy one way or another. It reveals something very interesting about infant cognition we didn’t know — to the level of proof required for science — before.
What we are learning about neuroscience, human cognition, language development and brain structures is some of the best work in the history of science. That emotional recognition is tied into deep brain structures or learned easily and early, rather than being a developmental thing tells us a lot about evolution and the human condition.
The kind of anti-intellectual anti-science bent you are on is the kind of thing that conservatives need to remove from amongst them root and branch if we are ever to escape from the liberal disease, because this kind of stubborn pride in being ignorant scares a lot of people. It scares the hell out of me for one.