Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) highlighted over $1 trillion in government waste in this year’s Festivus report, but there seems to be a few that involve our feline friends, uncovered by the White Coat Waste Project.
According to the report, the Department of Defense (DOD) spent $10,851,439 on what it describes as an “Orwellian Cat Experiment.” The experiment was completed under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the University of Pittsburgh.
The experiment involved slicing the back of male cats, exposing their spinal cords. Researchers then used electrodes which “fired off electric shocks while the incision was still open to make cats have an erection.”