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To understand the bogus funding acknowledgement, it helps to remember that this was written during the era of Proxmire's Golden Fleece awards, which picked rand
by pjdesno 3y ago
To understand the bogus funding acknowledgement, it helps to remember that this was written during the era of Proxmire's Golden Fleece awards, which picked random government-funded academic researchers and held them up for public ridicule based on highly slanted and selective descriptions of their research.
- throw0101b 3y ago* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award
- dmbche 3y ago"National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded project by psychologist Harris Rubin for $121,000, on developing "some objective evidence concerning marijuana's effect on sexual arousal by exposing groups of male pot-smokers to pornographic films and measuring their responses by means of sensors attached to their penises".[26][27]" One of the prize winners
- nemo8551 3y agoThat’s tremendous, can you imagine the initial conversations?
- olddustytrail 3y agoI suspect the initial conversation was along the lines of, "holy shit Harris are you fucking with me? You can get money for this?! Dude!"
- coldacid 3y agoI'd be even more interested in how the initial conversations about the alcoholic sunfish were like.
- Forge36 3y ago"Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It down" - Myth Busters Edit: I originally misquoted. A quick search corrected what I'd misremembered.