At NIH the Rot is Systemic, PETA Says as It Pushes Biden Not to Hire Another ‘Dinosaur” Director
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October 25, 2021
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Washington – It’s Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments Director Anthony Fauci who’s at present underneath public assault over experiments on canine funded by his company, however the rot runs deep on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH), and it goes to the highest. PETA is providing an answer, however to ensure President Joe Biden will get the message, PETA is working full-page advertisements—today in The Washington Post, tomorrow on Politico and in The Hill, and shortly within the Washington Examiner—calling on him to nominate a forward-thinking NIH chief who will finish the company’s funding of animal checks and as an alternative spend money on state-of-the-art, animal-free analysis strategies.
With NIH Director Francis Collins on the helm, NIH squandered almost half its price range on animal experiments—$19.5 billion in 2020—though 95% of recent medication that take a look at secure and efficient in animals fail in human medical trials and greater than 90% of primary analysis, most of which includes animals, fails to result in therapies for people. The Research Modernization Deal, developed by PETA scientists, gives a technique for phasing out such research—and final month, after reviewing it, members of the European Parliament voted in favor of growing an motion plan to part out animal experiments, together with a timeline.
“Regardless of pleas from sufferers, animal consultants, and forward-thinking scientists, previous NIH management has not been keen to vary the company’s reliance on failing animal fashions,” says PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell. “PETA is looking on President Biden to nominate a brand new NIH director who just isn’t solely visionary but additionally keen to make the choices crucial to place the U.S. again on the forefront of biomedical innovation.”
To maintain driving the message house, PETA supporters in big blow-up dinosaur costumes have been following the president to numerous occasions carrying indicators that learn, “Biden: Don’t Appoint One other NIH Dinosaur.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data on PETA’s newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
