NIH cancels study after $1.3B spent and no results!

Remember how the NIH claimed that non-existent budget cuts choked their ability to research Ebola?

Well, we have this little blurb today from CNBC:

The National Institutes of Health’s project, which was supposed to track 100,000 kids from before they were born through adolescence, was canceled last week after burning through $1.3 billion, the Bloomberg news agency reported Monday…

The story pointed out that despite being authorized by Congress in 2000, little work on the project was done besides a “small pilot study to test research methods.”

$1.3 billion over a 13-year period is $100 million a year wasted on junk.
 


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