We definitely need to DOGE nonsense like acupuncture out of the NIH and use that money for science but I don't want to live in a culture where children's theater doesn't want to have a play about "the ups-and-downs of a lovesick zombie who can’t find a date inthe land of the living."
It may not sound all that kid-friendly but this was a children's theater in Oregon and a stroll down any street in Portland exposes children to a lot worse things than lonely zombies.
Should the National Endowment for the Arts have spent $10,000 on that?(1) It sounds like a whole lot of money for a community theater children's show about zombies, and it is, but the secret deal in government funding is that half the money will be used for general expenses so it also went to other productions or a Keurig machine or something. And the participants don't get paid anything.
We can laugh about zombines in love but scientists can't get a free pass when it comes to ridiculous funding. The same year this got a check from taxpayers, Senator Tom Coburn's Wastebook revealed that the United States Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service was spending $10,000 to pay people to watch grass grow.
Meanwhile, the same National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health that wastes over $100,000,000 each year to discover acupuncture still doesn't work spent $387,000 so a University of Kentucky philosopher could give Swedish Massages to rabbits. And called it science.
Zombies in love is better than that.
NOTE:
1. OCTportland. “NEA Sample: Zombie in Love.” YouTube. YouTube, 17 Mar. 2014. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.
