#NIH Claims Not Money for #Ebola Research

by Kim D.

The head of the NIH told me on Friday an Ebola vaccine likely would have been found by now if not for budget cuts http://t.co/5QOpgD405m
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 13, 2014

Damn, those dirty Republicans are at fault again! Well, if claiming that the Ebola cure crisis is racist didn't work, blaming Republicans and budget cuts is a sure winner.

Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has "slowed down" research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has been left playing catch-up on a potentially avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.

"NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'" Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready." 

Remembering that the sequestration cuts were Obama's idea in the first place, this decrease was a whopping 5% leaving the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a $29 billion budget for 2013.  Let's see how well this government agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services has used dollars allocated to fund biomedical and health-related research.

#TookMoneyFromEbolaResearch "Government Funded Origami Condoms Tested on Rabbits" http://t.co/wtYokVDcl4
— Colorado REDTraci (@goptraci) October 13, 2014

#TookMoneyFromEbolaResearch "NIH Funds $2.6 Million Study to Get Prostitutes in China to Drink Less" http://t.co/EFl5xcuCwC
— Colorado REDTraci (@goptraci) October 13, 2014

More important to NIH than ebola: cocaine and quail sex habits http://t.co/PeWUYrYDrC
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 13, 2014

More important to NIH than ebola: $194,788 to Study How Transwomen Use Facebook http://t.co/FXmfSlM7y7
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 13, 2014

$70k study on...texting before college football games: http://t.co/EFXKUiSZyu @CounterMoonbat pic.twitter.com/FflIDWM8ZU
— Lady Jaye (@TheLadyJaye) October 13, 2014

Here you go, NIH paid $400,000 for researchers to cruise gay bars in Argentina: http://t.co/LVKSW0OZcv
— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 13, 2014

Was Obama the test subject for this NIH study? $350,000 researching how golfers perform when using their imagination: http://t.co/UUIWkay0z3
— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 13, 2014

Yep, almost forgot. NIH spent $1.5 million to find out why lesbians are fat: http://t.co/isHpWEqhis
— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 13, 2014