Tracking Your Taxes: NIH Spends Millions on Wasteful Research Studies

[Revmitchell]

Lawmakers in Washington are calling on the National Institutes of Health to explain why millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on seemingly ridiculous research projects, including:

-- how dragon boating can help cancer survivors;

-- how canoes can help cultural identity;

-- how snorting cocaine creates anxiety.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/25/tracking-taxes-nih-spending-millions-wasteful-studies/

 

[TC]

Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black. Maybe Congress should eliminate all of their own wasteful spending first.

 

[Johnv]

The key word in the OP is "seemingly".

 

[Revmitchell]

Oh they are ridiculous alright.