Last week, Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene took a detour from grilling Anthony Fauci over COVID-19, to confront him with photos of beagles who had been subjected to animal testing experiments widely reported to be funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the National Institutes of Health, following a 2021 investigation series by the group White Coat Waste Project.
Washington Post Only to discover that the NIH appears to have lied about funding the experiment, which involved beagles between 6 and 8 months old obtained from the kennels of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis.
In the study, the beagles were sedated and then exposed to hundreds of sand flies that had been deprived of food for 24 hours.
In late October 2021, CNN asked Fauci to appear for an interview, and one of his staff members suggested late on Oct. 24 that Fauci pause any TV interviews "Until we get a handle on this." Early the next morning, Fauci emailed 12 officials and asked them to "Tell me what grant or contract they are referring to." Within two hours, one replied that they might have identified the grant.
One NIAID official wrote in an email that Satoskar "Stated that it was mistakenly cited because he was not clear of the true purpose of US funding acknowledgment" and that the program in question had been funded only by the Pasteur Institute.
Study disappears from the database When the story broke in 2021, the NIH scrubbed it from its database and then fed WaPo disinformation: When The Post reported on the controversy in November 2021, the article noted: "The trapped-beagles study does not appear in a database of NIH-funded projects.
" The emails show that, while it was removed before the publication of The Post article, the study had been listed in the database for months and was still listed as of the previous month, when Fauci first asked about the controversy.
WaPo What's more, The NIH also issued a statement in 2021 insisting that they funded a separate study in Tunisia involving a vaccine and that the controversial experiment involving sand flies was not funded by them.
Except - internal NIH communications reveal they had no independent proof other than the principal investigator's statement that NIH did not fund the controversial study.
Other documents obtained by White Coat Waste reveal that their cover story about the more benign beagle experiment was bullshit too! Finally, other documents obtained by White Coat Waste suggest the Tunisia study funded by NIH was not as benign as the agency suggested.
The NIH study in Tunisia that the agency said it funded was cast in a positive light that is undermined by the grant application that has since been made public.
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