ABCNews.com has a story up with the headline:

Fringe Science Yields ‘Gay Bombs’ and Psychic Teleportation

The article is about the “wacky” ways the Pentagon spends money. The article starts out with this paragraph:

Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies.
This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion — about half of all government research and development dollars — on a variety of projects, according to the American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS).

All in the present tense. Here’s the section on the “gay bomb”:

Just this month, the government confirmed that an Ohio Air Force laboratory had asked for $7.5 million to build a nonlethal “gay bomb,” a weapon that would encourage enemies to make love, not war. The weapon would use strong aphrodisiacs to make enemy troops so sexually attracted to each other that they’d lose interest in fighting.

Before the “Bush is an anti-gay bigot” chorus chimes in, ABC is not quite accurate in its reporting. Although the Ohio Air Force lab confirmed this story “just last month,” this is an old program…from the days of the Clinton administration:

We learned about the gay bomb this month through the Sunshine Project of Berkeley, which gathers government documents on defense spending and found a 1994 proposal for a “gay bomb.” The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio – a long way from the thinking of Wilbur and Orville – envisioned a weapon that would spray opposing fighters and turn them gay, immediately making them more interested in each other than in shooting Americans. It asked for $7.5 million to get the weapons program started.

Not only does ABC make this sound like a current project, they fail to mention that the money was never approved for the project. At about page four of the article, ABC gets to some of the successes of what were once were “wacky” ideas. Things like the Internet, stealth airplane design, and GPS technology.