{"id":765861,"date":"2021-11-19T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=765861"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T13:45:29","slug":"fraudchis-fake-news-washington-post-smears-animal-rights-group-for-exposing-faucis-horrific-dog-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=765861","title":{"rendered":"IN DEFENSE OF THE ‘REALM’: State-run media attacks animal rights group for exposing Fauci’s hideous dog experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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NIH declined to say how many of the studies it currently supports involve animals, including monkeys and dogs. NIAID has an annual budget of $6.5 billion and currently supports about 10,000 'medical studies'.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

YASMEEN ABUTALEB:<\/strong> Anthony Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks. The U.S. covid chief got 3,600 phone calls in 36 hours, just as he and other Biden administration officials were preparing for the campaign to vaccinate young children.<\/em><\/p>\n

Much of the onslaught stemmed from a viral and false claim that the agency Fauci leads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had funded a medical experiment in which beagles were trapped in mesh cages filled with diseased sand flies, according to four National Institutes of Health officials familiar with the calls. The outrage was supercharged by a bipartisan letter signed by 24 members of Congress that questioned the agency\u2019s funding of medical research on dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou worthless piece of s—, you should be put in prison. Torturing animals!\u201d said a caller in one of 15 voice mails obtained by The Washington Post. \u201cI\u2019d like to take you out in the sand, tie you down, put them fleas all over your a–“…<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe constant harassment in the form of ridiculous accusations and outright lies makes doing my job and that of my staff of fighting the covid-19 pandemic all the more difficult,\u201d Fauci, who also serves as President Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser, said in an interview with The Post…<\/em><\/p>\n

The wave of anger grew out of a campaign by a little-known animal rights group called the White Coat Waste Project, which leveraged existing hostility among conservatives toward Fauci to further its cause, a Post review found.<\/em><\/p>\n

White Coat Waste has only a small fraction of the budget of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the nation\u2019s most prominent animal-research opponent, but the group\u2019s message was amplified by a right-wing echo chamber eager to thrash Fauci over everything from vaccine directives to NIH funding of coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in the Chinese city where the pandemic began.<\/em><\/p>\n

White Coat Waste was well positioned to stir conservative opposition to the trapped-beagle study, and to bring attention to five experiments that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, some of which resulted in the animals being euthanized…<\/em><\/p>\n

Fueling much of the chatter was a heart-rending image of two beagles, their heads trapped in sand-fly-infested netting \u2014 a photo that White Coat Waste began using over the summer and has continued to use to attack Fauci in fundraising appeals even after the scientists and the journal said NIAID did not fund that study.<\/em><\/p>\n

White Coat Waste spokesman Justin Goodman said the group does not believe NIAID\u2019s denial, and he dismissed the journal\u2019s correction as \u201ctoo convenient.\u201d The group has accused Fauci of \u201csentencing beagles to death on taxpayers\u2019 dime”… As the attacks escalated, White Coat Waste issued a statement saying that it focuses exclusively on animal research and does not take a stand on any of Fauci\u2019s policies regarding the pandemic…<\/em><\/p>\n

Goodman defended the decision to capitalize on the anti-Fauci fervor that has been brewing for more than a year and a half. \u201cWhen you have such a high-profile person to point the finger at for funding animal experiments, it would be malpractice for us not to do that,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The group plans to continue to focus on Fauci\u2019s support for animal research, he said. \u201cThis is our mission. People are upset, and they should be,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen any evidence that people aren\u2019t wearing masks or getting vaccinated because of us”…<\/em><\/p>\n

Goodman, the White Coat Waste spokesman, said the group\u2019s work has been highlighted by news outlets on the left, including the Huffington Post and AlterNet. \u201cWe don\u2019t care why people care about our issue, as long as they do something about it,\u201d said Goodman, who used to work at PETA. \u201cOur job is to widen the tent”… PETA spokeswoman Kathy Guillermo, who called for Fauci\u2019s resignation during a recent interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson…<\/em><\/p>\n

As a tax-exempt charitable organization, White Coat Waste is not required to disclose individual donors to the public. The group reported about $2.5 million in revenue last year, up from $1.4 million in 2019, according to tax filings. White Coat Waste says 78 percent of its budget comes from individuals and 18 percent from foundations. \u201cWe\u2019ve never received a penny from any right-wing group or any GOP-affiliated group, period,\u201d Goodman said…<\/em><\/p>\n

After The Post first interviewed Goodman for this story, White Coat Waste claimed on social media that it was \u201cunder attack.\u201d It accused Post reporters of preparing a \u201cpolitical hit job\u201d intended to \u201cprotect Fauci.\u201d Goodman and Bellotti made similar claims to iconoclastic journalist and animal-rights activist Glenn Greenwald, who wrote about those claims in a newsletter that he shared with his 1.7 million Twitter followers, triggering a round of coverage in the Daily Caller and other conservative publications…<\/em><\/p>\n

NIAID has an annual budget of $6.5 billion and currently supports about 10,000 medical studies. NIH declined to say how many of the studies it currently supports involve animals, including monkeys and dogs. Public pressure to limit animal research has increased in recent decades, leading Congress to pass laws that protect against inhumane treatment and require extensive justification for the use of animals in medical experiments.<\/em><\/p>\n

While the FDA said it is committed to reducing reliance on animal studies, the agency said such research remains necessary. Fauci declined to comment on his agency\u2019s support for animal research but pointed to an NIAID statement that said any such research must comply with laws and regulations to ensure \u201cthe smallest possible number of subjects and the greatest commitment to their welfare”. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YASMEEN ABUTALEB: Anthony Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks. The U.S. covid chief got 3,600 phone calls in 36 hours, just as he and other Biden administration officials were preparing for the campaign to vaccinate young children. Much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":765883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,22,23,24,25],"tags":[27,29,30,35,36,37],"class_list":["post-765861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-morality","category-rights","category-science","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-sentience","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765861"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765884,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765861\/revisions\/765884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/765883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}