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It sounds like a bad bet, but choreographing a synchronized swim team of Sea Monkeys is essentially what the government tried to accomplish with your money. According to Sen. Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2014, researchers were studying how the collective swimming motion of Sea Monkeys can affect the circulation of water.

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Voices of Liberty looks at eight absurd government projects funded with your money. http://bit.ly/1uHmm5z




Eight Absurd Government Projects Funded With Your Money
October 22, 2014 - Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) just released Wastebook 2104, his annual list of the stupidest ways the government could think to spend your money....
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Eight Absurd Government Projects Funded With Your Money October 22, 2014 – Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) just released Wastebook 2104, his annual list of the stupidest ways the government could think to spend your money. Sean Davis at the Federalist picks out eight projects that represent the best of the worst.

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4) Swedish Massages For Bunnies. A group of rabbits received daily rub downs from a “mechanical device that simulates the long, flowing strokes used in Swedish massages.” The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health provided $387,000 for the two year project which ended in April 2014.
The massages were given after subjecting the rabbits to exercise to measure its impact on recovery. To conduct the experiment, 18 “New Zealand White rabbits were instrumented” with “nerve cuffs for stimulation of hindlimb” leg muscles. The rabbits were “anesthetized and secured supine with one foot attached to a foot pedal.”

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