In huge news for those who have been disgusted by the stories that emerged of cruel experiments conducted on beagles and other animals by Dr. Fauci and others, the Trump Administration announced that it has closed the last in-house NIH beagle laboratory.
Such is what National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya recently announced during an appearance on Fox News Channel, telling the conservative cable network that his agency had, in the wake of scrutiny that had exposed the abuses that formerly occurred at the facility, closed its last in-house beagle laboratory.
As background, scrutiny of the horrible, now-closed facility was delivered by a report published after a years-long investigation by a medical watchdog group called White Coat Waste. In the report, the group revealed that the NIH killed over 2,100 beagles in “brutal septic shock experiments” since 1986, meaning the awful experiments occurred for decades on end.
In the stomach-churning report, the group revealed, “The NIH pumps pneumonia-causing bacteria into beagles’ lungs, bleeds them out, and forces dogs into septic shock.” Continuing, the report added, “After four days of infection, NIH kills the beagles—and stuffs their bodies into a refrigerator.”
In the wake of that report, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk drew scrutiny to the matter on X, posting that the matter would be investigated. Investigated it was, and so the facility was closed, as Director Bhattacharya explained on FNC.
Doing so, he told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday, May 4, that the experiments were near-useless and are being phased out. He began, “It’s very easy, for instance, to cure Alzheimer’s in mice. But those things don’t translate to humans.” He continued, “So we put forward a policy to replace animals in research with technological advances, AI and other tools, that actually translate better to human health.”
He then explained that the beagle-abuse facility was gone, telling Campus-Duffy, “We got rid of all of the beagle experiments on NIH campus.” When he told her as much, a visibly relieved Campus-Duffy said, “Amen.” Watch her discuss the matter with Director Bhattacharya here:
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Issuing a statement to the Daily Caller after the NIH decision to shut down the facility was announced, White Coat Waste Project Founder Anthony Bellotti said, “As the watchdog that first uncovered and battled Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests (the biggest animal testing scandal in history), we’re proud that White Coat Waste has closed the NIH’s last in-house beagle laboratory—and the US government’s biggest dog lab.”
Continuing, Bellotti praised President Trump for slashing wasteful spending such as the NIH’s beagle-abuse lab and vowed that his group would continue fighting to end the horrific animal abuse, saying, “We applaud the President for cutting this wasteful NIH spending and will keep fighting until we defund all dog labs at home and abroad.”
Similarly, Kathy Guillermo, PETA senior vice president of laboratory investigations, praised the NIH decision and told Fox News Digital, “We are letting the new NIH Director know how important this step is for modernizing science, and we’re especially happy because these last experiments involved sepsis, which we have been working to end for several years. Sepsis experiments on animals are failures.”