Civitas Institute has selected a cocaine addiction study featuring monkey experimental subjects at Wake Forest University Medical School as No. 1 on a list of the "10 worst federal stimulus projects in North Carolina."

Civitas' Brian Balfour notes in his analysis that they "seem completely unrelated to avoiding an economic 'catastrophe,' but rather an ad hoc satisfaction of countless dubious wish lists."

However, Mark Wright, a spokesman for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine says the $71, 623 stimulus grant is paying for a job, according to a mcclatchydc.com report.