Tag: NIH

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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 […]

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WCW and Rep. Nancy Mace Visit Fauci’s Monkey Island

On December 16, Team WCW joined Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) on a trip to Morgan Island. The small island off the South Carolina coast is home to America’s largest free-range colony of rhesus macaques and has been nicknamed “Monkey Island” by locals. Or, as Dr. Fauci might call it, the ‘all-you-can-experiment buffet.’   If you […]

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New WCW-Backed Bill would End All of Dr. Fauci’s Beagle Experiments

Shock can be good — because it means that people are paying attention. When WCW published our #BeagleGate investigations, documenting Dr. Anthony Fauci’s experiments on beagles, the world was definitely shocked. Was improving and safeguarding human life the primary concern of those Wuhan lab researchers? asks @KristanHawkins. The public should be asking these questions like […]

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Following WCW Campaign, Rep. Nancy Mace Presses Fauci about Monkey Island

Mace writes to Fauci about “Monkey Island” https://t.co/cU5018KVTu pic.twitter.com/4Cz3XCDcGy — The Hill (@thehill) December 1, 2021 There are some things you never want to find in your yard. Sinkholes. Skeletons. Booby traps. But if you’re South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace, whose congressional district includes the state’s coastal islands, there’s something else you don’t want to […]