Spent dollars and millions more on campaigns encouraging people in other countries to wear the shoes. Six of the highlights in the report are the waste of millions at the hands of the NIH. One of the most famous complaints involves the $2.3 million spent on a project that injected six-month-old beagle puppies with cocaine. “Readers may recall in our 2018 Festivus report, I updated everyone on an NIH project spending $874,503 to study the sex habits of Japanese quail on cocaine. In addition, the NIH has plunked down over $2.1 million over the years to “encourage rural Ethiopians to wear the shoes”.

Source: Ethiopian News December 26, 2022 20:07 UTC