Posted on 09/13/2010 7:43:00 AM PDT by La Lydia
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex. The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011...
Because AIDS researchers have been unsuccessful in convincing most adult African men to undergo circumcision, the UCLA study proposes to determine whether researchers can develop an after-sex genitalia-washing regimen that they can then convince uncircumcised African men to follow...
The study’s lead investigator Dr. Thomas J. Coates was the fourth highest-funded researcher in the country in 2002 and is currently conducting HIV research on three continents. CNSNews.com asked both Coates and NIMH the following question: “The Census Bureau says the median household income in the United States is $52,000. How would you explain to the average American mom and dad -- who make $52,000 per year -- that taxing them to pay for this grant was justified?”
Coates, who was unavailable for comment, directed CNSNews.com to ask grant-related questions of his assistant, Darya Freedman, who did not respond. The NIMH also declined to respond to CNSNews.com’s question.
I laughed so hard I had tears. Great post.
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Again - no surprise. We knew what Obama wanted to do.
It’s stuff like this that makes me want to be a TurboTimmy tax cheat.
Does CNS now require a login and password? I cannot get in without one - never before?
Sorry, I am registered so I could go right to it. I think this is not an article published today.
Lefties hate being laughed at. Because, well, they’re ...they’re serious. You know? They C-A-R-E!
( something like that )
That’s just NUTS!
But this would be a great opportunity for displaced ACORN workers. Give them a bucket, sponge, soap and a one-way ticket to Africa.
I called them and they said they are having trouble with their log-in function.
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Or we could use it to bring back the welfare to work program.
See if this link works: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/75198
Here is a link to the actual study abstract.
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=7814411&icde=5021426
Something got stumulated- but it wasn’t our economy
Seriously, couldn’t Barky and Reggie just travel over there and give a demo?
GORD I hate public health weenies.
Think of the mind that thought up such a study.
I have no liking to Michelle Obama, however, the photo of her is disgusting, and I hope it is removed. It is just fodder for the democrats. liberals, progressives, or whatever, to use against conservatives, who should have more of a sense of decency.
This must be some of those stimulus jobs we’ve been hearing about! Some are hand, some are blow.
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