NIH used taxpayer dollars to fund study in which gay teens log sexual activity sans parental consent

The National Institutes of Health has spent over $8 million on a taxpayer funded study that pays homosexual and transgender boys as young as 13 to report their sexual behavior on a mobile app, without the necessity of parental consent.

Researchers at Columbia University funded by the NIH offered as much as $275 to gay and transgender boys 13-18 to document their sexual behavior on the app MyPEEPS Mobile.

The app asks the teenage boys to document whether they are having "condom-less anal sex."

The app was developed for upwards of $300,000 about a decade ago, and $7.9 million have been spent since 2016 for Ivy League researchers to study the data collected on platform, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon. 
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