You Just Might Be Smarter Than Joe Biden If....

You think that spending $60,000 to study Jordanians who smoke hookah pipes is a waste of money, then you just might be smarter than Joe Biden. Although, I'm sure that he wouldn't agree.

Vice President Joe Biden praised the National Institutes of Health Tuesday, despite the agency’s record spending of tax dollars to study such topics as teaching Chinese meditation techniques to cocaine addicts and “hookah” smoking among college students in Jordan.

“I love how our opponents have nitpicked some of the research money that we have given to NIH. It reflects that they know nothing about science,” Biden said in announcing a report about the $100 billion from the stimulus package being spent on energy, science and health research.

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