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Nothing says Valentine’s Day like taxpayer-funded monkey erections
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Date: February 14, 2014 03:43PM
Nothing says Valentine’s Day like taxpayer-funded monkey erections
By M.D. Kittle / February 14, 2014 / 1 Comment
Ah, Valentine’s Day. Devoted to all things love and romance.
And nothing says love like lemon-scented induced monkey erections, of course.
WTF!
Yes, your loving Big Government has been hard at work shelling out your hard-earned tax dollars on research like this at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in Madison, Wis.
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LUSTY MONKEY: Do I smell, lemon? Oh, yes, I smell lemon. A taxpayer-funded study showed the scent of lemons gave marmoset monkeys erections.
The study, paid for with grants from the taxpayer-funded center and the National Institute of Mental Health, sought answers to the burning question: Can male marmoset monkeys be conditioned to associate lemony odors with sex. The answer: You bet. It seems a whiff of lemon extract is enough to make those little monkeys stand at attention — with or without a female marmoset in the general vicinity, if conditioned properly.
Jordana Lenon, public information officer for the Primate Research Center, said the extended research project went well beyond turning on marmosets, into the broader field of emotional processing and an examination of why primates are so fond of monogamy.
The monkeys were introduced to a novel scent, in this case lemon. Then the scent of their female mate’s genitalia. Then lemon again. And then, well, let’s just say the center’s custodians probably thought better of using lemon-scented Pledge on the lab furniture.
So how much did this uplifting research cost taxpayers? Lenon said the Primate Research Center’s costs were in staff time and a $2 bottle of lemon extract, purchased by one of the researchers.
The National Institute of Mental Health could not be reached for comment Thursday, but Thomas Insel, NIMH director, in a blog post on the institute’s website notes that each year NIMH spends roughly $1 billion of taxpayer funds to support research in academia.
“In effect, we are tasked by taxpayers to hire scientists to fix the problems of the patient community. In the end, if research in academia does not align with the needs of patients and families, we’ve got a problem,” Insel wrote.
Love is the universal language, and the subject of a good deal of research on the taxpayer’s dime. Here’s a look at some of the more eyebrow-raising studies on love, sex and arousal.
This article and more at the link:
http://watchdog.org/128758/love-sex-valentines-day/
By M.D. Kittle / February 14, 2014 / 1 Comment
Ah, Valentine’s Day. Devoted to all things love and romance.
And nothing says love like lemon-scented induced monkey erections, of course.
WTF!
Yes, your loving Big Government has been hard at work shelling out your hard-earned tax dollars on research like this at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in Madison, Wis.
.
.
LUSTY MONKEY: Do I smell, lemon? Oh, yes, I smell lemon. A taxpayer-funded study showed the scent of lemons gave marmoset monkeys erections.
The study, paid for with grants from the taxpayer-funded center and the National Institute of Mental Health, sought answers to the burning question: Can male marmoset monkeys be conditioned to associate lemony odors with sex. The answer: You bet. It seems a whiff of lemon extract is enough to make those little monkeys stand at attention — with or without a female marmoset in the general vicinity, if conditioned properly.
Jordana Lenon, public information officer for the Primate Research Center, said the extended research project went well beyond turning on marmosets, into the broader field of emotional processing and an examination of why primates are so fond of monogamy.
The monkeys were introduced to a novel scent, in this case lemon. Then the scent of their female mate’s genitalia. Then lemon again. And then, well, let’s just say the center’s custodians probably thought better of using lemon-scented Pledge on the lab furniture.
So how much did this uplifting research cost taxpayers? Lenon said the Primate Research Center’s costs were in staff time and a $2 bottle of lemon extract, purchased by one of the researchers.
The National Institute of Mental Health could not be reached for comment Thursday, but Thomas Insel, NIMH director, in a blog post on the institute’s website notes that each year NIMH spends roughly $1 billion of taxpayer funds to support research in academia.
“In effect, we are tasked by taxpayers to hire scientists to fix the problems of the patient community. In the end, if research in academia does not align with the needs of patients and families, we’ve got a problem,” Insel wrote.
Love is the universal language, and the subject of a good deal of research on the taxpayer’s dime. Here’s a look at some of the more eyebrow-raising studies on love, sex and arousal.
This article and more at the link:
http://watchdog.org/128758/love-sex-valentines-day/
Re: Nothing says Valentine’s Day like taxpayer-funded monkey erections
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Date: February 14, 2014 04:12PM
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Re: Nothing says Valentine’s Day like taxpayer-funded monkey erections
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Date: February 14, 2014 04:52PM
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