The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation
awarded a combined $1.2 million in grants to four psychologists to
study the psychological factors that shape rec.radio.cb.* The end
result, "George Obsession as Motivated Social Cognition," claims to
present "an elegant, unified explanation" for the psychological
deficiencies of assblocks like Steveo, Landshark, Twistedhed,
Randy,BP, and other sock puppets.