We’re in the best of hands
Kurt Brouwer August 25th, 2009
In this era of budgetary constraint and fiscal rectitude, we are pleased to report that our political leaders and bureaucratic chieftains have really gotten the message. Otherwise, they would fund all kinds of crazy things.
Oops.
U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job (CNS News, May 12, 2009, Edwin Mora)
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.
Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.
The grant, made last November, refers to prostitutes as ”female sex workers”–or FSW–and their handlers as “gatekeepers.”
“Previous studies in Asia and Africa and our own data from FSWs [female sex workers] in China suggest that the social norms and institutional policy within commercial sex venues as well as agents overseeing the FSWs (i.e., the ‘gatekeepers’, defined as persons who manage the establishments and/or sex workers) are potentially of great importance in influencing alcohol use and sexual behavior among establishment-based FSWs,” says the NIH grant abstract submitted by Dr. Li…
This study certainly seems essential doesn’t it? After all, what could be more important to people in Detroit, home of Wayne State University, than that Chinese prostitutes drink responsibly? And, since this ’study’ is funded by the Federal government, it’s not as though we have any problems closer to home, right?
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This is truly a government program that might offend just about everyone. Wow! I thought it was a parody at first.
jb–I don’t think it is possible to use parody anymore. Things are so weird in real life, that parody seems to be dead.