Comments on: They Studied What??

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:43 +0000

Jim – you beat me to it.

There is a causal relationship between Global Warming and funding for Global Warming research.

By: StaciCarsten

StaciCarsten — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:05:02 +0000

Isn’t it something?! The wasting of money that goes on to tell us things that are common sense.

By: Hoto

Hoto — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:40:21 +0000

i don`t need any studie to know this two facts.

By: Jim ~ mydebtblog.com

Jim ~ mydebtblog.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:15:57 +0000

They forgot to mention global warming.

By: Law Student

Law Student — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:39:48 +0000

I agree with Minimum Wage. I also think that it’s not necessarily intuitive — I haven’t seen the study, but the poorest kids should be eligible to receive help from the state, so it could also be possible that they would be visiting the doctor more frequently than the kids of middle class families whose parents cannot afford health care and do not receive health care fromtheir employers. If kids who are eligible for aid are nevertheless visiting the doctor less frequently, perhaps this is a sign that parents are not making informed choices, and that the government should beef up programs that make parents aware of the benefits for which they are eligible.
Alternatively, perhaps it signals that we should provide parents time off/transportation to take their kids tothe doctor.

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:09:37 +0000

My mom once read about an experiment involving lobsters and treadmills (underwater ones!). But I was a kid and don’t remember the details.

By: Minimum Wage

Minimum Wage — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:02:54 +0000

There is grant money and apparently some of it is available for silly stuff – if you don’t apply, you don’t get, so somebody applied and got.

There is often an ulterior motive in spending money to obtain documented evidence of something which might seem obvious. Like if someone is lobbying to expand the SCHIP program, it can’t hurt to pad your case with data.

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