You know the answer to that will always be “yes”.

Opinion | Why is Anthony Fauci trying to kill my puppy?
The episode says more about the right-wing disinformation machine than anything else.
You know the answer to that will always be “yes”.
Offered for context only,
And the amount of input that Fauci had in terms of awarding that grant, is about the same that Ray Crock has on the pickles being left out of my quarter pounder order.
I particularly liked “Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant” like they put grant money into boxes and mail it?
“Kroc,” not “Crock.”
Otherwise, completely agree.
It does seem to be peculiar to rich people of Northern European extraction, but many other cultures also have their version of senseless and cruel killing of animals.
Dana Milbank at WaPo explains what was really going on with that beagle puppy experiment, and largely debunks it. Something of the sort kinda-sorta did happen, but all those horrific stories are conflating two different experiments, and grotesquely exaggerating the horrific aspects beyond all reality.
The episode says more about the right-wing disinformation machine than anything else.
It turns out that this Tunisian study was erroneously attributed to NIAID . NIAID did, however, fund different research in Tunisia — and the beagles weren’t puppies, they weren’t euthanized, they weren’t “de-barked,” and they weren’t “trapped” so “flies could eat them alive.” The dogs were given an experimental vaccine and allowed to roam. There was a very good reason for this: Dogs are the main reservoir host (and flies the main vector) of the disease that was being studied, which affects half a million people a year, particularly children, and has a 6 percent mortality rate in Tunisia.
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Had right-wing outlets checked with the NIH, they would know that in another study, which didn’t involve Tunisia and didn’t involve flies, NIAID-funded researchers did indeed perform cordectomies on 44 beagle puppies and euthanized them after the study. And here’s why: The Food and Drug Administration requires researchers to experiment on non-rodent mammals for certain classes of HIV-AIDS drugs, and for this study specifically recommended dogs. It is necessary to use young dogs (six to eight months) to assess whether the drugs retard growth. It is mandatory that the dogs be euthanized so researchers can search for damage to organ systems. And it is recommended by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care that the dogs undergo cordectomies to reduce anxiety (in dogs) and hearing loss (in humans) from barking. (Beagles are used because of their uniform size.)
Above all, this is no frivolous pursuit: The drugs under study are promising next-generation antiretrovirals that can be administered to HIV/AIDS patients less frequently — potentially saving countless human lives.
ETA: I wonder about de-barking dogs to “reduce anxiety”. If they have no mouth and must scream, does that make it okay?
Had right-wing outlets checked with the NIH…
You lost them right here.
Why check facts when making them up is not only easier but so much fun?
ETA: I wonder about de-barking dogs to “reduce anxiety”. If they have no mouth and must scream, does that make it okay?
A not at all WAG? No barking reduces anxiety in the other dogs.
A not at all WAG? No barking reduces anxiety in the other dogs.
Yeah, I get that, but it still can’t be nice for dogs in experiments like that. I wouldn’t want to be one of them.
The official Republican Twitter account, just four hours apart:
“Have you forgotten doublethink?”
At a Turning Point USA gathering, one person asked Charlie Kirk when they can start killing elections officials . He did say they shouldn’t, but he followed that up by saying that states should declare themselves free from federal laws and kick the federal government out of the states https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/pushing-election-lies-tpusa-audience-member-asks-charlie-kirk-when-they-can-use-guns
“Charlie Kirk (R) advises succession from the union and treason.”
A couple of weeks ago I saw a cartoon that showed an elephant lamenting, “The Mexicans are taking our jobs!” and in the second frame, “Why aren’t the Mexicans taking our jobs?”
Mo Brooks says he would proud if his staffers had helped to organize the “stop the steal rally”. Well, yeah, if that was the real point.
Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks called the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. "lawful"
MTG says that the Capitol riot was justified by the Declaration of Independence.
"Jan. 6 was just a riot," Greene said of the violent insurrection that left five dead and dozens injured
Gotta hand it to her! I mean, it’s not every day that someone openly admits to supporting actual, violent, insurrection against the United States.
Don’t worry MTG, our people actually know how to build functioning gallows.