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padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; ">Washington Freebeacon</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; "><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.ff883835f81c6977ad65212eeadccf6a.en.html#_=1413577096292&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=LizWFB&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button" title="Twitter Follow Button" data-twttr-rendered="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 113px; height: 20px; "></iframe> <br style="box-sizing: border-box; "><time class="entry-date" datetime="2014-10-16T17:38:04+00:00" pubdate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; ">October 16, 2014 5:38 pm</time></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">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.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">“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.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">However, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; ">Washington Free Beacon </em>has uncovered $39,643,352 worth of NIH studies within the past several years that have gone to questionable research.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">For instance, the agency has spent <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-still-studying-why-lesbians-are-obese/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$2,873,440</a> trying to figure out why lesbians are obese, and<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-wonder-why-fat-girls-cant-get-dates/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$466,642</a> on why fat girls have a tough time getting dates. Another <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-2-million-to-get-old-people-to-join-choirs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$2,075,611</a> was spent encouraging old people to join choirs.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">Millions have gone to “text message interventions,” including a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/nih-spent-480500-to-text-message-drunks/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8530120&icde=20687239" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$674,590.</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">The NIH is also texting older African Americans with HIV (<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8460834&icde=20687239" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$372,460</a>), HIV and drug users in rural areas (<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8241014&icde=20687239" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$693,000</a>), HIV smokers (<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8515380&icde=20687239" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$763,519</a>), pregnant smokers (<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8436007&icde=20687239" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$380,145</a>), teen moms (<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8636660&icde=20672513" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$243,839</a>), and meth addicts (<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8650807&icde=20687239" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$360,113</a>). Text message interventions to try to get obese people to lose weight have cost <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/federal-dietary-guideline-committee-focused-on-population-behavior-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$2,707,067</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">The NIH’s research on obesity has led to spending <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-2-1-million-to-develop-weight-tracking-insoles-buttons/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$2,101,064</a> on wearable insoles and buttons that can track a person’s weight, and <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-putting-on-vegetable-puppet-shows-for-preschoolers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$374,670</a> to put on fruit and vegetable puppet shows for preschoolers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">A <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-224250-to-change-how-kids-order-food/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">restaurant intervention</a> to develop new children’s menus cost <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8635915&icde=18594720" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$275,227</a>, and the NIH spent<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spent-430608-to-get-mothers-to-dance-with-their-daughters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$430,608</a> for mother-daughter dancing outreach to fight obesity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">Sexual minorities have received a substantial amount from the NIH. The agency has now spent<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8486183&icde=19127100" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$105,066</a> following 16 schizophrenic LGBT Canadians around Toronto for a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/u-s-taxpayers-fund-52k-study-of-16-schizophrenic-lgbt-canadians/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">study</a> on their community experiences.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">The total for a project on <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/nih-spent-464272-to-find-out-why-gay-men-get-syphilis-in-peru/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">why gay men get syphilis in Peru</a> is now <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8515276&icde=19127100" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$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 href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/the-invisible-women/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$718,770</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">Millions went to develop “<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/taxpayers-paid-2-4-million-to-develop-origami-condoms/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/origami-con-man/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">massive fraud</a> for using grant money for full-body plastic surgery in Costa Rica and parties at the Playboy mansion.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">How transwomen use Facebook is the subject of another NIH study worth <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-194788-to-study-how-transwomen-use-facebook/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$194,788</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">The agency has also committed <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/nih-commits-5-million-to-mine-facebook-instagram-twitter-to-study-drug-abuse/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$5 million</a> to “mine and analyze” social media to study American’s attitudes toward drug abuse, and <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8510292&icde=18022174" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">$306,900</a> to use Twitter for <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-studying-how-to-use-twitter-for-depression-surveillance/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">surveillance on depressed people</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">The NIH has also spent $15,313,372 on <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/feds-spending-13m-on-anti-smoking-studies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cessation studies</a> devoted to every kind of smoker imaginable. Current studies are targeted at <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8507172&icde=17740978" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">American Indians</a> ($2,899,954); <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8231376&icde=17740978" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chinese and Vietnamese men</a> ($424,875); <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8417011&icde=22140741" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">postmenopausal women</a> ($4,151,850); <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8717626&icde=22143598" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the homeless</a>($558,576);<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=8552072&icde=17740978" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Korean youth</a> ($94,580); <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8538895&icde=22143417" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">young schizophrenics</a> ($397,802); <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8705075&icde=22143460" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Brazilian women smokers</a> ($955,368);<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8652444&icde=22143546" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Latino HIV-positive smokers</a>($471,530); and the <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8700358&icde=22140907" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">LGBT community</a>($2,364,521).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">Yale University is studying how to get <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8508129&icde=17740978" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">“Heavy Drinkers”</a> to stop smoking at a cost of $571,799. Other projects seek to use <a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8505466&icde=17740978" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Twitter</a> to provide “social support to smokers” ($659,469), and<a href="http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8496727&icde=17740978" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">yoga</a> ($1,763,048) as a way to quit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">An NIH project <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spending-53282-to-study-sighs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">studying sighs</a> cost taxpayers $53,282.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">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 href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=fd542040cf9104031abefa3444774e74" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">receive $8.6 million</a> to research and test their vaccine, a fraction of NIH funding that went to the above projects.</p></div></div></span></body></html>