by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The National Institutes of Health is funding a program to convince female “light-smokers” in Brazil to kick their bad habit, at a cost to American taxpayers of $653,190.“There is a great need for the development of gender-relevant tobacco control efforts,” the...
by Jane Richey | Jul 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The National Institutes of Health is spending $253,800 of federal taxpayer money to study ways to educate Boston’s male prostitutes on safe-sex practices.According to a description of the federally funded project, a previous study of male sex workers in Boston found...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A $509,840 grant by the National Institutes of Health will pay for a study that will send text messages in “gay lingo” to methamphetamine addicts to try to persuade them to use fewer drugs and more condoms. The study began in February. Lead researcher Dr....
by Jane Richey | Apr 24, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The federal government is spending $152,000 to study “voice therapy” for transgenders, saying it is incumbent to being “accepted as one’s preferred gender.” “This study will illuminate the capabilities of the human larynx and inform the relationship between...