Tuesday's New York Times reports the men and women of science at the once-prestigious National Institutes of Health in Washington are concerned that Dr. Francis S. Collins, their new Obama-appointed boss, actually believes in God.
Dealing with what it calls "the God issue," the Times story reports that "…many scientists view such outspoken religious commitment as a sign of mild dementia."
NIH lab coats are all in a bunch because the agency has an institutional bias against God and His people and a preoccupation with disordered sexually aberrant conduct and prostitution. This NIH behavior is inappropriate but particularly inappropriate for the esteemed men and women of science, knowledge and all that is wise that they pretend to be.
In 2003, TVC's review of NIH grant recipients created a firestorm. This review looked at how federal funds were being used to help fight the serious health crises of that time.
We found that $100's of millions of taxpayer dollars were being spent on research which was bizarre.
For example, Northwestern University received $147,000 to pay women to watch pornography with transmitters strapped to their genitalia while researchers measured their arousal patterns.
Another group of adult scientists examined the working habits of "lot lizards" – prostitutes who inhabit truck stops -- to figure out how disease is spread.
But these men and women of science have a spiritual side too. One study funded with federal tax dollars by NIH explored the practices of "two spirited" transvestites in Native American Indian cultures.
As I told USA Today, "We're not opposed to research. But research dollars are scarce. Choices have to be made. Are we going to research finding a cure for juvenile diabetes or the sex lives of Mexican workers before and after they come over the border?"
I submitted a list of these and other humdinger NIH grants to Bush Administration officials and Members of Congress and asked that they exercise some oversight on this confused agency.
The NIH scientists and their grant recipient friends attacked me when the list became public. They accused me of McCarthyite tactics and witch hunts against scientists just doing their jobs.
They argued that mere mortals could not possibly understand the scientific value of these "studies" and we should just hand over our tax dollars and stop complaining.
Now NIH grant-funding procedures are about as transparent as the Mississippi after a summer downpour – clear as mud.
It is no longer a simple matter to review the lists of grants because the NIH itself and numerous "scientific" groups have schooled their grant writers in not being so obvious about the kinky subject of the study. And Congressional oversight under Reid and Pelosi no longer seems to exist.
President Bush always joked when he introduced a member of the White House staff who once served as Mother Theresa's lawyer – "It tells you how bad things have gotten when Mother Theresa needs a lawyer."
At the NIH, one of the leading voices of science in the federal government, adult employees are pausing from studying truck stop prostitutes and orgasms to call a man who believes in God "demented."
I pray for Dr. Collins' success and survival because dementia is epidemic at NIH where the inmates are clearly running the institution and writing big federal checks every day to the strangest people.
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