Research has sunk to new levels of stupidity. Our taxes pay for a good deal of this research, so that they can tell us things we already know.

Politicians do this a lot too, especially Dumbya. He tells us things like "A warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy, we just can't drive on and hope for the best." and he thinks because he is the one who says it, it is somehow so much more important.

Thursday April 26 9:58 AM ET

Women Want Security, Men Want Sex

LONDON (Reuters) - Women stay in monogamous relationships for security and men stay in them for sex, a science journal says.

``It's a cynical view of human relationships, but researchers now say it is the driving force behind the evolution of monogamy -- and women started it,'' New Scientist magazine said Wednesday.

In most species, females only have sex when they are fertile and males know through visual and chemical cues when the time is right. When it is not, males look elsewhere.

But in birds, porcupines and humans, females have sex whether they are fertile or not, making it more likely that the males will stick around because fertility is no longer an issue.

``There is a search cost. It takes some time to find a female,'' Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University told the magazine.

Enquist and his colleague Miguel Girones of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Nieuwersluis developed a mathematical model to test their theory. They found that monogamy is often the top choice when fertility is hidden, even among males who are used to having many partners.

``Classical explanations of sexual behavior always focus on the male. But this gives stronger focus on the woman,'' said Enquist.

-- boycott stupidity (tell these people @ to. shut up), April 26, 2001

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I often wonder if y2k would have happened under Dumbya's reign, would we have gotten off so easy?

-- dumbya and dumber (dumbya@and.dumber), April 27, 2001.