Our tax dollars at work
With all the sequestration going on, stuff like this still gets funding. From
CNS News:
$2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher �risk for hazardous drinking.�
The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its project, "Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of Adult Lesbians," which aims to develop �culturally sensitive� strategies to prevent lesbians from being drunks.
�Studies using both probability and nonprobability samples provide ample evidence of lesbians' vulnerability to hazardous drinking,� the grant�s description reads. �However, very little is known about the factors that increase lesbians' risk for hazardous drinking.�
�We propose to build on and extend our study of sexual identity and drinking� to model effects of cumulative stress on hazardous drinking among lesbians.�
Why do we even have a
National Institutes for Health? It's 2010 budget was 30.9 Billion dollars. There are some divisions that do good work but better work is being done at the university and private lab level. Put our money there and not in a bloated bureaucracy.
Posted by DaveH at March 19, 2013 2:05 PM