<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span>Or ,an obscure disease that primarily affected poor Africans. Why should we care, if there's no profit in it?</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, October 17, 2014 3:04 PM, Sunil <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16,
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<div><div dir="ltr">No. <br><br>A bi-partisan commitment to endless wars and a bloated military budget is the reason.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><hr id="yiv1470127376stopSpelling">From: bear@moscow.com<br>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:23:14 -0700<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Could this be why there is no money for Ebola?<br><br><font class="yiv1470127376ecxApple-style-span" size="4" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="yiv1470127376ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height:14px;"><br></span></font><span class="yiv1470127376ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;"><h2 class="yiv1470127376ecxentry-title" style="padding: 0px; font-family: 'PT Sans Narrow', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; line-height: 1; font-size: 40px; text-decoration: none; letter-spacing: normal;">$39,643,352 Worth of NIH Funding That Could Have Gone to the Ebola
Vaccine</h2></span><span class="yiv1470127376ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;"><div class="yiv1470127376ecxrow yiv1470127376ecxentry-content" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:auto;max-width:none;"><div class="yiv1470127376ecxsmall-12 yiv1470127376ecxcolumns" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:2.5em;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:2.5em;width:700px;"><div class="yiv1470127376ecxfeature-image" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:315px;"><div class="yiv1470127376ecxsocial-buttons" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;"><span class="yiv1470127376ecxst_sharethis_large" style=""><span class="yiv1470127376ecxstButton"
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221);padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-color:initial;font-size:16px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1470127376ecxurl yiv1470127376ecxfn yiv1470127376ecxn" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/author/elizabeth-harrington/" title="View all posts by Elizabeth Harrington" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:18px;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;">Elizabeth Harrington</a> </span></div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="yiv1470127376ecxauthor yiv1470127376ecxvcard" style="display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(221, 221, 221);border-right-color:rgb(221, 221,
221);border-bottom-color:rgb(221, 221, 221);border-left-color:rgb(221, 221, 221);padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-color:initial;font-size:16px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;">Washington Freebeacon</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;"> <br style=""> October 16, 2014 5:38 pm</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent more than $39 million on obese lesbians, origami condoms, texting drunks, and dozens of other projects that could have been scrapped in favor of developing an Ebola vaccine.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">“Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in
time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready,” said NIH Director Francis Collins, blaming budget cuts for his agency’s failure to develop a vaccine for the deadly virus.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">However, the <i>Washington Free Beacon </i>has uncovered $39,643,352 worth of NIH studies within the past several years that have gone to questionable research.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">For instance, the agency has spent <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-still-studying-why-lesbians-are-obese/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$2,873,440</a> trying to figure out why lesbians are obese, and<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-wonder-why-fat-girls-cant-get-dates/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$466,642</a> on why fat girls have a tough time getting dates. Another <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-2-million-to-get-old-people-to-join-choirs/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$2,075,611</a> was spent encouraging old people to join choirs.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">Millions have gone to “text message interventions,” including a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/nih-spent-480500-to-text-message-drunks/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">study</a> where researchers sent texts to drunks at the bar to try to get
them to stop drinking. The project received an additional grant this year, for a total of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8530120&icde=20687239" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$674,590.</a></div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">The NIH is also texting older African Americans with HIV (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8460834&icde=20687239" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$372,460</a>), HIV and drug users in rural areas (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8241014&icde=20687239" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$693,000</a>), HIV
smokers (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8515380&icde=20687239" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$763,519</a>), pregnant smokers (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8436007&icde=20687239" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$380,145</a>), teen moms (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8636660&icde=20672513" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$243,839</a>), and meth addicts (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8650807&icde=20687239" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$360,113</a>). Text message
interventions to try to get obese people to lose weight have cost <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/federal-dietary-guideline-committee-focused-on-population-behavior-change/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$2,707,067</a>.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">The NIH’s research on obesity has led to spending <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-2-1-million-to-develop-weight-tracking-insoles-buttons/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$2,101,064</a> on wearable insoles and buttons that can track a person’s weight, and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-putting-on-vegetable-puppet-shows-for-preschoolers/"
style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$374,670</a> to put on fruit and vegetable puppet shows for preschoolers.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">A <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-224250-to-change-how-kids-order-food/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">restaurant intervention</a> to develop new children’s menus cost <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8635915&icde=18594720" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$275,227</a>, and the NIH spent<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spent-430608-to-get-mothers-to-dance-with-their-daughters/"
style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$430,608</a> for mother-daughter dancing outreach to fight obesity.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">Sexual minorities have received a substantial amount from the NIH. The agency has now spent<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8486183&icde=19127100" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$105,066</a> following 16 schizophrenic LGBT Canadians around Toronto for a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/u-s-taxpayers-fund-52k-study-of-16-schizophrenic-lgbt-canadians/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">study</a> on their community experiences.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit;
font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">The total for a project on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/nih-spent-464272-to-find-out-why-gay-men-get-syphilis-in-peru/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">why gay men get syphilis in Peru</a> is now <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8515276&icde=19127100" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$692,697</a> after receiving additional $228,425 this year. The NIH is also concerned about postpartum depression in “invisible sexual minority women,” with a study that has cost <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/the-invisible-women/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$718,770</a>.</div><div style="padding:
0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">Millions went to develop “<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/taxpayers-paid-2-4-million-to-develop-origami-condoms/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">origami condoms</a>,” in male, female, and anal versions. The inventor Danny Resnic, who received $2,466,482 from the NIH, has been accused of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/origami-con-man/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">massive fraud</a> for using grant money for full-body plastic surgery in Costa Rica and parties at the Playboy mansion.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">How transwomen use Facebook is the subject of another NIH study worth <a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-194788-to-study-how-transwomen-use-facebook/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$194,788</a>.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">The agency has also committed <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/nih-commits-5-million-to-mine-facebook-instagram-twitter-to-study-drug-abuse/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$5 million</a> to “mine and analyze” social media to study American’s attitudes toward drug abuse, and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8510292&icde=18022174" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">$306,900</a> to use Twitter for <a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-studying-how-to-use-twitter-for-depression-surveillance/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">surveillance on depressed people</a>.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">The NIH has also spent $15,313,372 on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/feds-spending-13m-on-anti-smoking-studies/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">cessation studies</a> devoted to every kind of smoker imaginable. Current studies are targeted at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8507172&icde=17740978" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">American Indians</a> ($2,899,954); <a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8231376&icde=17740978" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">Chinese and Vietnamese men</a> ($424,875); <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8417011&icde=22140741" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">postmenopausal women</a> ($4,151,850); <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8717626&icde=22143598" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">the homeless</a>($558,576);<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=8552072&icde=17740978" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">Korean
youth</a> ($94,580); <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8538895&icde=22143417" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">young schizophrenics</a> ($397,802); <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8705075&icde=22143460" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">Brazilian women smokers</a> ($955,368);<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8652444&icde=22143546" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">Latino HIV-positive smokers</a>($471,530); and the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8700358&icde=22140907"
style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">LGBT community</a>($2,364,521).</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">Yale University is studying how to get <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8508129&icde=17740978" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">“Heavy Drinkers”</a> to stop smoking at a cost of $571,799. Other projects seek to use <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8505466&icde=17740978" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">Twitter</a> to provide “social support to smokers” ($659,469), and<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8496727&icde=17740978" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">yoga</a> ($1,763,048) as a way to quit.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">An NIH project <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spending-53282-to-study-sighs/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">studying sighs</a> cost taxpayers $53,282.</div><div style="padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;">On Tuesday, Health and Human Services (HHS) had to outsource efforts at an Ebola vaccine to the Baltimore-based Profectus BioSciences Inc. The company will <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=fd542040cf9104031abefa3444774e74" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit;">receive $8.6 million</a> to research and test their vaccine, a fraction of NIH funding that went to the above projects.</div></div></div></span><br>=======================================================
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