He said there was no topping money for AIDS research during the Clinton years. If you were part of any program whatsoever, you were glamorously jetted all over the country for unnecessary meetings. He was part of a CDC program where he had to survey men who had sex in public places and so he used to have to hang out around coin-operated theaters and make himself run nonchalantly into guys and ask them leading questions for survey information like, "So, you come here often?", and, "So, what are you into?". He used to have to try also to find out if they were married or if they knew by sight the other guys that would come to the theaters, and he used to have to gauge by eye their ethnicities for the questionnaires he would fill out afterwards.
I asked him about the ethics of doing this since it didn't seem like they were aware he was a researcher, and he said that according to the government it was all right since it was an ethnographic study and he was doing participant observation, and besides it's not like any guys would ever be cited by name or in an identifiable way in the research.
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So how unncessary were these meetings? Does he prefer the current administration?
It was stuff that could be done phone-conferencing, he said.
He got out of public health like ten years ago and so we never talked about Bush-era policies.
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