Category: Investigation

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WCW Kittengate Investigation: Tax-Funded Lab Abused Former Pets, Drills into Cats’ Skulls (UPDATED)

  A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has uncovered that the taxpayer-funded University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) torments cats in barbaric experiments, and even egregiously obtained cats from an animal shelter to abuse as blood donors by draining dangerous amounts of blood. New records obtained by WCW expose National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments at […]

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WCW Investigation: Lab Funded by NIH and NSF Induces “Most Severe Stroke” in Dogs at University of Chicago 

  White Coat Waste’s (WCW) latest investigation has exposed a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded lab at the University of Chicago that is deliberately inducing the “most severe stroke” in dogs before killing them. Documents obtained by WCW reveal that helpless dogs “at risk of … significant suffering” have their arteries intentionally blocked to cut […]

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WCW INVESTIGATION: NIH Wastes $46M+ to blind dogs at UPenn (UPDATED)

  White Coat Waste (WCW) has uncovered that the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has been breeding and maintaining a colony of dogs with genetic vision disorders for nearly 50 years, wasting over $46 million in taxpayer money. As recently as January 2026, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) paid a UPenn lab to breed dogs […]

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WCW Investigation: $30M in New NIH Monkey Lab Funding Undermines RFK’s Pledges to End Primate Tests

  A new White Coat Waste (WCW) analysis of government spending data shows that, under Director Jay Bhattacharya and ‘animal testing czar’ Nicole Kleinstreuer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to dole out tens of millions in new funding to wasteful monkey labs, despite Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s pledges to end primate testing.  The […]

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WCW INVESTIGATION: New NIH Grant Pays Lab to Breed Kittens, Drill Their Skulls, & Induce Strokes at the University of Minnesota

  White Coat Waste’s (WCW) new Kittengate investigation series has uncovered that National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) experimenters plan to abuse 60 kittens in a deadly lab at the University of Minnesota (UMN).   Documents WCW obtained through state and federal open records requests reveal that kittens as young as two months old will have holes […]

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Lawmakers Demand End to NIH Funding for Fauci-era ‘Wuhan West’ bat lab in Colorado (UPDATED)

  Citing White Coat Waste investigations, DOGE Senate Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are demanding that the National Institutes of Health immediately cancel spending on a Fauci-funded bat breeding and experimentation lab on U.S. soil. Since 2023, White Coat Waste (WCW) has been campaigning to cut funding for the establishment of […]