Category: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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WCW Investigation: NIH Has Been Bleeding Beagles—and Taxpayers—Since 1947 (UPDATED)

UPDATE (10/1/25): White Coat Waste’s investigation has exposed how, on September 23, 2025, the NIH doled out a new $7.2 million contract to continue funding the bleeding beagle colony at the University of North Carolina until 2029, despite widespread opposition from Congress and taxpayers. ORIGINAL POST (9/26/22) Remember when we exposed how the National Institutes […]

#BeagleGate Victory: NIH Cancels Fauci’s Runny Nose Experiments following WCW Campaign

#BeagleGate Victory! We just scored a big win in the War on Waste…and “first blood” in the battle known as #BeagleGate! In May, White Coat Waste Project’s (WCW) latest #BeagleGate investigation exposed that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — Dr. Fauci’s division of the NIH — was planning to waste $1.8 million […]

Killed for a Runny Nose? WCW Discovers 5 (!) New Fauci-Funded Puppy Experiments

White Coat Waste Project made national and international headlines in 2021, after our #BeagleGate campaign revealed a series of cruel and wasteful dog experiments funded with tax dollars by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Remember de-barking puppies? Infecting dogs with heartworm? Infesting beagles with sand flies? Injecting dogs with cocaine? Yeah, those experiments. Many […]

Bipartisan Members of Congress Call for Defunding Russian Animal Labs After WCW Exposé

Every year, in a process called “appropriations,” Congress sets the budget for federal departments and agencies — determining how much money they will get, and how they are allowed to spend it. Appropriations take a while because it’s hard for Congress to come to an agreement on…well, anything, really. But issues related to taxpayer-funded animal […]

Op-Ed: The Useless Cruelty of Animal Experimentation

  The Useless Cruelty of Animal Experimentation Originally published by National Review Recent revelations about NIH- and NIAID-funded experiments on beagles are a ghastly reminder of the cruel ineffectiveness of such research. Last week saw Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), come under heavy fire for his agency’s […]