Three gain-of-function researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with an “unknown illness” in 2019 prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, including a researcher who received $41 million in U.S. government grants.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has defunded animal labs in Russia following ongoing public pressure from the taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW), but Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) warned that the U.S. must stop funding all foreign labs “owned and operated by our adversaries like Russia and China.”
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Tuesday unveiled the latest examples of egregious government spending and waste, which includes taxpayer dollars used to train pigs to play video games, provide dolphins with an underwater touch pad with “dolphin friendly apps,” and establish a comedy center in New York.
The taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW), which blew the lid off the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab, said Dr. Anthony Fauci has “abused his authority, science and taxpayers” during the time in his role as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Americans have a right to know if “dangerous taxpayer-funded coronavirus experiments on bats and humanized mice” caused the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project said in a statement.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) will not use of dogs as test subjects for upcoming experiments, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief White House medical adviser and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head, confirmed. The decision follows the work of the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) as well as Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) sending a letter to Fauci regarding the use of taxpayer funds on upcoming experiments.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Thursday sent a letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief White House medical adviser and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head, demanding answers on the reports of the federal agency continuing to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on animal testing, specifically on dogs.
The NIH funds “deadly” spinal cord cat experiments in a state-run lab in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to White Coat Waste Project.
Beagle puppies who were killed in an experiment funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were named after celebrities and popular television characters, according to taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW).
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is facing a congressional probe after reports emerged alleging that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) spent millions of taxpayer dollars on a cruel experiment, injecting beagle puppies with cocaine.
“Wasteful” NIH-funded animal experiments have come under fire for alleged violations of federal spending transparency law.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s office received thousands of angry phone calls in as part of the fallout from the reports that his division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded cruel experiments involving beagle puppies, prompting his assistant to ignore calls for two weeks.
Dr. Anthony Fauci believes attacks and criticisms lodged against him are “dangerous to the entire field of science,” he told the Washington Post this week.
Several Republican senators, including Sens. Rand Paul (KY), Roger Marshall (KS), Tom Cotton (AR), Marco Rubio (FL), Mike Braun (IN), and Susan Collins (ME), sent a letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday following the revelation of cruel experiments conducted on dogs funded, at least partially, through his division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded an experiment at Kansas State University, involving hundreds of ticks feasting on puppies, which were injected with a mutant bacteria, alive.
The White Coat Waste Project issued a study indicating the National Institute of Health (NIH) in 2020 spent an estimated $140 million of foreign aid for animal testing in at least 29 different countries.
The U.S. is funding animal experimentation at the Wuhan laboratory, Sen. Joni Ernst and the White Coat Waste Project’s Justin Goodman said.
