NIH questions AIDS, sex attitudes grants [Repub moral agenda]

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I didn't see this posted, please excuse if it's a repeat.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20031028/ap_on_he_me/nih_sex_aids

WASHINGTON - Dr. Liana Clark says that the government questioning the value of her federally funded study of birth control use among teenagers has her reconsidering her decision to seek another grant for a similar project.

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Clark said that NIH last week asked her to describe the usefulness of her study of teenagers' misconceptions about birth control. She had hoped for another NIH grant to study whether fears about being unable to get pregnant in the future discourage women from using birth control now.

NIH is telephoning 157 such researchers who were awarded grants for projects on AIDS (news - web sites) and sexual practices in response to complaints from the conservative Traditional Values Coalition (news - web sites).

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NIH spokesman John Burklow said his agency simply was responding to a request from Republican lawmakers who were given a list of the research grants. The projects include studying subjects such as teenagers' sexual activity, sex and drug use among truckers and sexually transmitted diseases among Mexican immigrants.

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The Traditional Values Coalition, in an electronic copy of the list, commented on several studies, including one by a Michigan researcher about teenagers' sexual and mental health. The comments read: "Promotes a 'sex positive' attitude among teens; endorses sexual behavior and condom use among teens."


Andrea Lafferty, the coalition's executive director, called the grants a "total abuse of taxpayer dollars."


"We know for a fact that millions and millions of dollars have been flushed down the toilet over years on this HIV (news - web sites), AIDS scam and sham," Lafferty said. "We know what it takes to prevent getting the disease. It takes not engaging in risky sexual behaviors."

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1. Rate this on Yahoo

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[7th_Sephiroth]

2. i saw this

posted earler

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3. sorry, on yahoo it was only 35 minutes old when I posted

and I did not see it on the first three pages of LBN.

I did post it in another forum, perhaps you saw it there.

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[tom_paine]

4. Ah, fear and intimidation: Coin of the Realm for Busheviks

And, coincidentally or not, coin of the realm for Stalin, Hitler, Marcos, Baby Doc, Idi Amin...

Lucky the Busheviks control a country where more "civilized" methods of control exists or there would already be Gulags.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. Hitler and the German Nazis. .. . .

. . . .dismissed "science" as a product of corrupt Jewish thinking.

"Science" was to have been more intuitive, more spiritual, not tied to nasty things like experiments, empirical evidence, rationality.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. . . . . sounds distressingly familiar, don't it?

Edited to add --

http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2431.htm

link to a review of George L. Mosse's groundbreaking 1966 book on Nazi Culture, in which he detailed, using their own words, how the Nazi "scientists" ignored science. very appropriate that the book has just this month been reissued.