Fauci swamped by angry calls over beagle experiments after ca"Ympaign that included misleading image

[JohnSJ]

"Anthony S. 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 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’s funding of medical research on dogs.

“You worthless piece of s---, you should be put in prison. Torturing animals!” said a caller in one of 15 voice mails obtained by The Washington Post. “I’d like to take you out in the sand, tie you down, put them fleas all over your a--.”

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"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. White Coat Waste has only a small fraction of the budget of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the nation’s most prominent animal-research opponent, but the group’s 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.

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. The group’s founder and president is a seasoned Republican operative, and most board members and some top staffers have worked for Republican members of Congress or GOP-leaning organizations."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/11/19/fauci-beagle-white-coat-waste/

It is way past time to start suing these pieces of garbage for false and misleading statements.

I wouldn't be surprised if the racist PIG rand paul had his fingers in this

[Bettie]

1. Probably the same people who keep their dogs chained outdoors 24/7

without shelter or shade.

And as for medical research, what do they want? Are they volunteering to be test subjects?

[JohnSJ]

3. They are probably anti-vac and anti-science, and probably couldn't cate less about animals

Hi

[madville]

2. The general consensus was that it was out of context

They did fund experiments involving beagles and sand flies, just not that specific experiment that was in the photo with the beagles heads inside netting with the flies.