{"id":921046,"date":"2021-10-25T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=921046"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:28:49","slug":"its-despicable-desantis-says-fauci-needs-to-be-held-accountable-for-cruel-puppy-experiments-gain-of-function-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-despicable-desantis-says-fauci-needs-to-be-held-accountable-for-cruel-puppy-experiments-gain-of-function-research\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Despicable\u2019: DeSantis Says Fauci \u2018Needs To Be Held Accountable\u2019 For Cruel Puppy Experiments, Gain Of Function Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-despicable-desantis-says-fauci-needs-to-be-held-accountable-for-cruel-puppy-experiments-gain-of-function-research%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=921046&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci \u201cneeds to be held accountable\u201d for funds distributed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) toward abusive animal experiments and gain-of-function research Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has been under fire in recent days after the NIAID <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/nih-admits-funding-gain-of-function-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted<\/a> in a Oct. 21 letter that they funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). A bipartisan group of 24 congressional lawmakers requested information from the chief medical advisor on the funding for experimental drug tests one beagles since January 2018 in an Oct. 21&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/bipartisan-letter-anthony-fauci-niaid-animal-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said that the NIAID should have been banned from the funding that American tax dollars needs to be distributed to ethical research rather than \u201cabusing puppies\u201d and gain-of-function research. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/04\/anthony-fauci-niaid-georgia-beagle-experiment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Fauci-Led Agency Funded Abusive Animal Experiments Promising To Kill Dozens Of Beagles)&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t have mad scientists running around playing God like this and then come to find out what else is Fauci and NIH doing? They\u2019re doing cruel experiments on puppies. What they were doing with those puppies is flat-out disgusting, it\u2019s despicable, that needs to stop,\u201d the Florida governor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot believe that American tax dollars would go to treat those dogs the way those dogs are treated and I really think Fauci needs to be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Flat-Out Disgusting&#039;: DeSantis Tears Into Fauci Over Experiments On Dogs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QHU9V1EEXLk?start=288&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Documents released via a Freedom of Information Act request by watchdog taxpayer group White Coat Waste Project revealed that the NIAID <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/05\/antony-fauci-niaid-white-coat-waste-anima-experiment-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">funded<\/a> $1.68 million in taxpayer dollars towards drug tests on 44 beagle puppies. The experiments involved beagles being force fed or injected with an experimental drug, then being euthanized or dissected. Dozens of beagles died as a result of the experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it does not require that human drugs be tested on dogs. Despite this, the National Institute of Health (NIH) documents <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/anthony-fauci-wuhan-institute-virology-major-garrett-the-takeout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a> that the experiments were done to \u201csupport application\u201d to the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci had continuously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/fauci-denies-funding-gain-of-function-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">denied<\/a> that the NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan to develop and experiment with different variations of coronaviruses in 2019. He defended the funding by saying it went towards searching for viruses that could potentially infect humans and that his only regret is that the research causes \u201ca distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, the only regret is that, what it has caused right now, is such a degree of distraction of trying to do what we really should be doing, is addressing the outbreak,\u201d Fauci previously said. \u201cAnd what we did, and did quite successfully, was to develop vaccines that have now been lifesaving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci \u201cneeds to be held accountable\u201d for funds distributed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}