Your Tax Dollars At Work

Ganked from sclerotic_rings:

US Air Force spends $25k on a report into psychic teleportation. (Said report calls for the USAF to spend $7.5 *million* on further investigation, but it looks as if their profligacy has some limits.)

Some experts have long criticized what they see as a military sweet tooth for junk science. A "remote viewing" project, for example, undertaken by defense intelligence services and declassified in 1994, sought to see whether psychic powers could be employed to spy on the Soviet Union. The teleportation report "raises questions of scientific quality control at the Air Force," the FAS' Steven Aftergood says... Explaining why the lab sponsored the study, AFRL spokesman Ranney Adams said, "If we don't turn over stones, we don't know if we have missed something."

While we're turning over coprolites, I call for more research into the hitherto-neglected "if you pay $25k towards my mortgage, missile-intercepting laser pigs will fly out of our collective ass" theory.

Edit: Though I guess it would explain how that F-16 ended up shooting up a school 5 km from where it was supposed to be.