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The US Department of Health has allocated 3.2 million dollars for soldering monkeys

RIA NewsThe US Department of Health has allocated $ 3.2 million for soldering monkeys.

Just to find out what effect on body tissues is achieved by excessive alcohol consumption.

This is not an isolated project, writes The Washington Times (Wasted! Feds spend millions of tax dollars getting monkeys drunk). So, the University of Missouri was allocated almost 70 thousand dollars to study whether SMS mailing motivates students to drink less, thereby "reducing the harmful effects of alcohol consumption." In general, in recent years, the Ministry of Health has allocated money for such ridiculous projects as the study of a mouse binge or the study of pilots looking for the thrill of drunk driving.

Of particular note is the study conducted from 2008 to 2010. In it, subjects under the age of 30 were supplied with booze and put to play poker. After that, the results were compared, calculating how different the achievements of a drunk and a sober player are. $154688 was spent on this.
(Here it is impossible not to recall the numerous researchers who put the same and even more dangerous experiments not on third–party volunteers, but on themselves - VM :)

David Williams, president of the Alliance for the Protection of Taxpayers of the United States, is confident that the National Institutes of Health of the United States (NIH – the center of the U.S. government responsible for research on health and biomedicine) "has too inflated budget, and money is flowing into research that has almost no value to society."

The US Congress created the NIH with the aim of "developing knowledge about how to improve health, prolong life and overcome diseases." This year, the institution's budget amounted to $ 24 billion.

Portal "Eternal youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru12.09.2014