I remember posting about a year ago about how they were wasting money to study chimps hopped up on coke, i really thought that was the most depraved waste of tax payers dollars that we would ever see..... turns out i was wrong....
They should just give those chimps on Jersey Shore some free cocaine and follow them around if they really want to see the side effects of drugs on animals..... It would probably be about the same price....
Taxpayers may feel kind of blue when they discover their dollars went to fund a study to determine rats like to bop to the music of Miles Davis while hopped up on cocaine.
The study, which was performed at Albany Medical College, drew jeers from the animal rights group In Defense of Animals and landed it on its top ten list of Real Ridiculous Research.
The research found that sober rats donât really like music that much. After the silence, the rats liked Beethovenâs âFur Eliseâ more than Miles Davisâs iconic jazz tune âFour.â
But when the rats were given doses of cocaine, their tasted shifted and they gravitated toward the jazz.
MOST AMAZING CHIMPS!
The studies, which were funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, were aimed at analyzing the links between pharmacology and neurology in drug abuse.
âThese experiments... show that your tax dollars and animalsâ lives are frivolously wasted on research that adds nothing to medical progress and tells us nothing we care to know â or didn't know already,â In Defense of Animals wrote in its introduction to the list.
Albany Medical College protested its spot on the list of ridiculous research.
âThe ultimate goal of this research is to find medications that can help diminish drug cravings in humans,â Jeffrey R. Gordon, spokesman for the medical school, told The Pulse.
The group, which only focused its ire on National Institutes of Health experiments that involved research on animals, had issues with a few other studies, including one about the sex habits of hamsters.
Lehigh and University of Minnesota researchers found that putting hamsters on a diet didnât increase their appetite for the opposite sex.
The animal rights group dubbed the study another example of wasteful tax dollars spending and âwhite-coated welfare.â
A Lehigh University spokesperson begged to differ.
"This study is part of a line of research that seeks better understanding of behaviors essential to survival, including seeking food and reproduction,â university spokesman Jordan Reese told Lehighvalleylive.com. âHow the brain regulates these behaviors is relevant, for example, to understanding the effects of commonly prescribed drugs, including those used to treat attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder and related drugs used to control appetite.â
Other studies that made the groupâs list included the effect of lemon scent on monkey erections, contagious yawning in chimpanzees and the role of single mothers in the prairie vole community.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...d-tax-dollars-article-1.1063528#ixzz1scJHw94X
They should just give those chimps on Jersey Shore some free cocaine and follow them around if they really want to see the side effects of drugs on animals..... It would probably be about the same price....
Taxpayers may feel kind of blue when they discover their dollars went to fund a study to determine rats like to bop to the music of Miles Davis while hopped up on cocaine.
The study, which was performed at Albany Medical College, drew jeers from the animal rights group In Defense of Animals and landed it on its top ten list of Real Ridiculous Research.
The research found that sober rats donât really like music that much. After the silence, the rats liked Beethovenâs âFur Eliseâ more than Miles Davisâs iconic jazz tune âFour.â
But when the rats were given doses of cocaine, their tasted shifted and they gravitated toward the jazz.
MOST AMAZING CHIMPS!
The studies, which were funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, were aimed at analyzing the links between pharmacology and neurology in drug abuse.
âThese experiments... show that your tax dollars and animalsâ lives are frivolously wasted on research that adds nothing to medical progress and tells us nothing we care to know â or didn't know already,â In Defense of Animals wrote in its introduction to the list.
Albany Medical College protested its spot on the list of ridiculous research.
âThe ultimate goal of this research is to find medications that can help diminish drug cravings in humans,â Jeffrey R. Gordon, spokesman for the medical school, told The Pulse.
The group, which only focused its ire on National Institutes of Health experiments that involved research on animals, had issues with a few other studies, including one about the sex habits of hamsters.
Lehigh and University of Minnesota researchers found that putting hamsters on a diet didnât increase their appetite for the opposite sex.
The animal rights group dubbed the study another example of wasteful tax dollars spending and âwhite-coated welfare.â
A Lehigh University spokesperson begged to differ.
"This study is part of a line of research that seeks better understanding of behaviors essential to survival, including seeking food and reproduction,â university spokesman Jordan Reese told Lehighvalleylive.com. âHow the brain regulates these behaviors is relevant, for example, to understanding the effects of commonly prescribed drugs, including those used to treat attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder and related drugs used to control appetite.â
Other studies that made the groupâs list included the effect of lemon scent on monkey erections, contagious yawning in chimpanzees and the role of single mothers in the prairie vole community.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...d-tax-dollars-article-1.1063528#ixzz1scJHw94X
