Tag: RFK

· Blog, Investigation

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 […]

· Blog, Instant Impact

INSTANT IMPACT: Rep. Nancy Mace Urges RFK Jr. to Cut NIH Funding for Dog and Cat Testing, Cites White Coat Waste Investigations

  Citing new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace just fired off a letter calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to end all current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for painful dog and cat experiments.  Mace referenced new WCW research showing that, in January, the NIH doled out […]

· Blog, Investigation

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 […]

· Blog, Investigation

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 […]