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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Golden Hammer: Feds spend millions to study drunken monkeys, pilots and students

There’s a whole lot of drinking going on in the name of government science, and some watchdogs think it’s the American taxpayer who is getting hammered.

Right now the National Institutes of Health is spending $3.2 million to get monkeys to drink alcohol excessively to determine what effect it has long term on their body tissue.

NIH also has handed out $69,459 to the University of Missouri to study whether text messaging college students before they attend pre-football game tailgates will encourage them to drink less and “reduce harmful effects related to alcohol consumption.”

And the government’s premier research arm has doled out money in recent years for research on binge-drinking mice, inebriated gamblers and pilots seeking the sensation of flying drunk — on a simulator of course.

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2 comments:

  1. Speaking of such,the 20 person brawl that the Sarah Palin family was involved in was quite an entertaining event.Videos will definitely surface if she runs for anything.

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  2. What were the results of the study for Obama? He could be classified as a student.

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