U.S. Government Funds $400,000 Study on Gay Sex in Argentina Bars

[ccharles000]

Government researchers are spending more than $400,000 in taxpayer money to hit the bars in Argentina.

The National Institutes of Health are paying researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk -- and just what can be done about it.

Doctors and specialists from the New York Psychiatric Institute are using the generous grant from NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to help tailor HIV prevention programs to work at bars and clubs.

Though public health officials say that HIV/AIDS rates are higher in Washington, D.C., than in some parts of West Africa, U.S. government funds are going to help curb dangerous liaisons in Argentina's capital.

The study began in September 2008, according to an online abstract, and has already cost taxpayers $198,776, NIH documents show.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/08/government-funds-study-gay-sex-argentina-bars/

(yes I know it is fox but I could not find it anywhere else)

[MrSlayer]

1. Fuck man. Give me the money I already know the answers.

Why does anyone engage in risky behavior when they are drunk? Because they're fucking drunk. What can be done about it? Nothing.

Pay me right fucking now.

[notesdev]

2. I'm glad

that we have the foresight to steal from future generations in order to pay for really important stuff like this.

[Hanse]

3. The money, naturally, picks up much more than bar tabs.

Salaries. Computers. Grad student tuition. Statisticians. Large surveys. Etc.

Leave it to Fox to attack science, government funding, homosexuality, and foreigners.

It's a shame knee jerk illiterate people will probably get upset over this.

[upi402]

4. smells like rat

call me a skeptic

[Vidar]

5. Probably a junket. for Republican cangressmen.