The U.S. government spent $171,000 to study how monkeys gamble
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Top 10 Ridiculous Government Funded Research Projects
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U.S. taxpayers gave $856,000 to the NSF to film mountain lions running on treadmills
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The National Science Foundation handed out $307,524 to teach synchronized swimming to sea monkeys
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The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health provided $387,000 for the two year project providing Swedish massages to rabbits
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The NSF bankrolled $331,000 US taxpayer dollars to study whether "hangry" (a combination of hungry and angry, of course) spouses are more likely to stab voodoo dolls of their partners
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The National Institutes of Health spent approximately $442,340 to study the behaviour of male prostitutes in Vietnam
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The NIH was given $800,000 in U.S. "stimulus funds" to study the impact of a "genital-washing program" on men in South Africa
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Professor Nutbutter
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Do they ask these guys if they washed their balls or do they have to check them???
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The U.S. government spent $175,587 in a study "to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behaviour"
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The National Science Foundation once spent $216,000 to study whether or not politicians "gain or lose support by taking ambiguous positions". Well maybe they do and maybe they don't
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health gave $666,905 to a group of researchers that is conducting a study on the benefits of watching reruns on television