EXPOSÉ: NIH ships tax dollars overseas for “junkie monkey” experiments, more

As White Coat Waste Project has exposed time and again, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has more tax money than it knows what to do with, leading to $20-billion-plus of wasteful and nontransparent spending on animal testing each year. Now, we’ve discovered the NIH is so #AddictedToSpending that it’s shipping our tax dollars to Great Britain to get animals in labs hooked on drugs and alcohol.

As first reported by the UK’s The Independent, a new WCW investigation of federal spending found that the NIH sent over $17 million tax dollars to British laboratories to create animal addicts, including:

• $11.6 million addicting monkeys and other animals to cocaine, morphine, and heroin (University of Bath, others)
• $4.9M forcing pregnant mice to consume alcohol to cause birth defects (Oxford University)
• $708,000 addicting zebrafish to nicotine (Queen Mary University of London)

The last example has already caught the attention of waste warrior Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who criticized the project and featured the ridiculous study in the 2019 Festivus edition of his Waste Report.

Here in the U.S., WCW is trying to launch an ad campaign near NIH headquarters to let taxpayers know they’re being forced to pay for these foreign experiments, but the government is unlawfully censoring us.