Your Tax Dollars At Work...!

There is just no doubt among any of us that the PTB waste millions and millions of OUR money foolishly, but some of these outlandish studies are a bit much. When you read this one from Listverse, I think you'll agree.

How Do Shrimps Fare Walking On A Treadmill?

What do you think when you look at shrimp?

For the foodies, it may be all about their texture and what they could be paired with. For the casual observer, they may look like just another one of the countless marine species that have no significant impact on our lives. For the scientists who carried out this study, though, the first question that came to their minds was: “So what if we put them on a treadmill?”

Under the guise of studying the effects of stress on marine life when they were only trying to decisively answer a ridiculous question by one of their kids, a couple of scientists injected some shrimp with bacterial infections and put them on a tiny underwater treadmill to see what would happen.

In a result that would not surprise—or even interest—anyone anywhere whatsoever, they concluded that uninfected shrimp performed better than their infected counterparts. The best (or worst) part? The study got $682,570 of taxpayer funding from the National Science Foundation.

I mean, I know these guys need to study marine creatures for all sorts of reasons, but this is going a tad too far! Just my opinion...

Coffee out on the patio this morning.