National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya has shut down the agency’s last beagle laboratory, ending controversial experiments linked to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
This decision marks the end of a long-standing practice of using dogs in biomedical research, which drew significant public and ethical scrutiny.
“We got rid of all of the beagle experiments on NIH campus,” Bhattacharya said in an interview with "Fox & Friends Weekend" host Rachel Campos-Duffy.
The closure reflects a shift in NIH policy under Bhattacharya’s leadership, prioritizing ethical considerations and responding to widespread criticism of the experiments’ cruelty before his arrival. //
The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) exposed that experimentation in the fall of 2021. Some of the testing is difficult to stomach even in description alone, let alone the videos and images uncovered showing the deplorable conditions in which these beagles were left to suffer and die.
One such experiment reportedly included $375,000 given to a Tunisian research lab that placed beagle puppies’ heads in cages filled with sand flies, which ate them alive. Fauci conceded to a House subcommittee that he "signed off" on grants that funded the tests. //
Melly
8 hours ago
PETA didn't say jack publicly when the story broke, but they've sent Battacharya flowers.
Someone ought to call that out while they're giving thanks 😉
