I've been all over the NIH and Brigham and Women's Hospital websites and can't find anything about it. A Google news search comes up empty too.
Assuming it is true, the story linked above notes that the study was begun in 2011, long before sequester and it notes that additional funding is in question because of it.
In other words....barring additional evidence....thread fail.
Does this count as additional evidence?
Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results
Yes, it does indeed. Thanks.
Comment: While I think this study, and the other one above, are abject foolishness and a waste of the taxpayers dollars, I would like to point out that once we all buy into the notion that something is a national health "crisis," be that tobacco, sugary drinks, obesity or whatever, the natural and predictable result of that is public pressure to "do something" about it. And, the natural off shoot of that public pressure is researchers lining up to tap the treasury for "studies."
We've seen it happen thousands upon thousands of times, yet we still fall for it whenever some interest group decides to push some issue near and dear to their hearts. They get their stories in the news, provide bought and paid for bogus "research" to "prove" the crisis, then they're off and running with our money. The motivation isn't health and never has been. It's money. Our money. My money. Your money.
How many times will we fall for this swindle? How many people right here on these boards are concerned about obesity? How many favor somebody "doing something" about it? If you're one of those, you've got no right to bitch about this because YOUR support, your gullibility is what enables this crap to continue.
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