U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced Monday that he filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump—who was impeached twice and acquitted both times during his first term. However, Thanedar’s latest action against Trump has reignited one of his own controversies online. A 2010 video that shows more than 100 dogs being freed after being neglected has resurfaced on social media platform X since Thanedar revealed he was filing articles of impeachment against Trump.
NIH made several commitments as a part of that effort, including establishing the Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application within Bhattacharya’s office to help scale non-animal approaches; publishing annual data on the reduction in funding for animal studies; offering more training in non-animal approaches and integrating that expertise into the study sections that make determinations about NIH extramural grants.
“It’s very easy, for instance, to cure Alzheimer’s in mice. But those things don’t translate to humans,” Bhattacharya told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday: “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.” When he made the announcement that “We got rid of all of the beagle experiments on NIH campus,” Campus-Duffy said, “Amen.”
The National Institutes of Health announced it would stop funding beagle research. The move is in response to a petition signed by more than 100,000 people calling for the program to be defunded. The petition also called for an end to the use of beagles as pets in the military.
National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya recently announced the agency closed its last in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus. A report from the White Coat Waste (WCW) project detailed the lab's history of allegedly pumping pneumonia-causing bacteria into more than 2,000 beagles’ lungs.