🇺🇸 United States · 2011 · 🐾 Animals
Political “waste” lists linked it to $3 million. The treadmill itself cost…
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
US$47 the actual treadmill
The shrimp got a gym membership. The researcher paid for the gym.
What actually happened
Marine biologist David Scholnick says he built the treadmill for under $50 from spare parts and paid for it himself. The research, partly federally funded, studied how infections affect shrimp. Critics’ “$3 million” figures bundled together several grants.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.