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The National Institutes of Health spent over $300,000 to study whether quails got more frisky after being fed cocaine

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Records and public reporting confirm that the NIH funded research using Japanese quail to examine the connection between cocaine exposure and sexual motivation, with total funding exceeding $300,000.

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politifact.com: PolitiFact | Uncle Sam spends six figures to study coked birds copulating, Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Mark Neumann says

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reporter.nih.gov: RePORT ⟩ RePORTER

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Shows an NIH project investigating the relationship between cocaine and sexual motivation in Japanese quail.

skeptics.stackexchange.com: Did the National Institutes of Health spend over ...

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Confirms the NIH funded a study on quail and cocaine, totaling over $300,000.

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first checked31 Jul 2026

judged → SUPPORTED · 7531 Jul 2026

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