Million Dollar Shrimp
2011
2011-01-01 From 2011 through 2019, Fox News repeatedly peddled that universities were paying $503K, then $3M, then $3B in funding to “watch shrimp on a treadmill”. They failed to cite the actual cost being paid for out-of-pocket by the researchers, or that the research was used to study food safety and how much bacteria can end up in our seafood.
2025 February
2025-02-03 In a social media post, Elon Musk rehashed old conservative uproar about shrimp-treadmill research simply to rekindle and reinforce distrust and misinformation. He wrote, “Insane wasting of taxpayer money”.
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/shrimp-treadmill-study-cost-misrepresented-2025-02-21/