Comments on: Ten stupid academic studies funded by the federal government

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:28:27 +0000

To be fair–non-goal directed research can have interesting results.

There have been times where something silly turned critical.

Probably apocryphal, but I have heard some type of cetacean oil was used in Apollo.

By: BLSinSC

BLSinSC — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:43:05 +0000

Hmm, I can imagine that a lot of that money was spent taking a few pigeons to Las Vegas! There are MANY random, sometimes weird, thoughts that ramble through my mind. I can HONESTLY say that I’ve never considered whether pigeons gamble! And, unlike Hunter Biden, I’ve never fathomed a notion about whether cocaine makes Japanese quail more promiscuous!
I HAVE wondered about something I read a long time ago about Lawyers! Know what happens when a lawyer takes viagra? They get taller! Now THAT would be at least a multi-million, multi-year study! No offense to anyone out there who is a decent, caring lawyer!

THIS is the kind of WASTE that needs to be identified and eliminated. I’ve worked hard since I was 14 (bagged groceries at an open air curb market for $.40 per hour) and retired as a Controller at a manufacturing plant. In my 50 years of working and paying taxes, I might have contributed $500-$600 THOUSAND in Federal Taxes. Imagine a LIFETIME of TAXES going up in smoke on pigeons and cocaine for foreign quail!!

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:52:34 +0000

From the profile of the author: Emily is ….. studying political science and journalism. She is an active and has vowed to fight…

She is an active what?
She is an activist?

She is in collage.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:46:46 +0000

Number two is throwing poo.

I don’t want to brag, but I’m kinda intelligent too.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:29:24 +0000

Then too, the proto Vivek–Bobby Jindal, talked about “something called volcano monitoring.”

That was also a howler (for folks around Lassen, St. Helens, etc.)

By: F

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:39:22 +0000

It’s all just sickening.

Money wasted. Time wasted. Taxpayers on the hook. Faculty and students with no usable new knowledge.

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:31:07 +0000

reference Gambling Habits of Pigeons.
Have a background in (the Human Services application of…) Skinnerian Behaviorism, we pretty much invented studying how pigeons & rats respond to reinforcement schedules, whether in nature or completely contrived, and under all sorts of psychoactive drugs & their counterparts. (and “gambling.”)
I’d be willing to say practically, there isn’t a Behavioral Pigeon Study that hasn’t been done before., and this goes back to before BF Skinner worked to develop Pigeon guided weapons in WW2.