Calls to fire ‘demon doctor’ Fauci grow after ‘experiments saw puppies eaten alive by sandflies’
CALLS to fire “demon doctor” Anthony Fauci are growing among lawmakers over the alleged funding of twisted experiments that saw puppies eaten by sandflies.
Fauci, 80, is under fire amid reports that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases allegedly used thousands of taxpayers dollars to fund experimental testing on dogs.
Taxpayer watchdog The White Coat Waste Project claims the NIAID spent $1.68million on drug tests involving 44 beagle puppies.
Some of the animals allegedly had their vocal cords removed to muzzle their barking, according to The Hill.
It’s alleged that the NIAID sent a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia and researchers at the White Coat Waste Project claim the dogs were locked in cages with sandflies.
A letter, spearheaded by South Carolina congresswoman Rep. Nancy Mace and signed by both Democrats and Republicans, urges the NIAID to respond to the allegations, Newsweek reports.
The lawmakers say they have “grave concerns about reports of costly, cruel, and unnecessary taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs”.
The letter states: “This cruel procedure – which is opposed with rare exceptions by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, and others – seems to have been performed so that experimenters would not have to listen to the pained cries of the beagle puppies. This is a reprehensible misuse of taxpayer funds.”
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GOP lawmaker Madison Cawthorn has called for an investigation into “demon doctor” Fauci, Newsweek reports.
Cawthorn told legislators Tuesday: “Dr Fauci has forsaken his Hippocratic oath and exchanged it for a mantle of unchecked power.
“His policies shuttered the US economy, drove our country into financial upheaval, and violated the rights of millions of Americans.”
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has clashed with Fauci over recent months, called for the health boffin to be dismissed.
He told Axios on HBO Sunday: “He should be fired. The thing is, is just for lack of judgment of nothing else, and I, you know, he’s probably never going to admit that he lied, he’s going to continue to dissemble and try to work around the truth and massage the truth.”
Paul has accused Fauci of lying about research funding at the Wuhan lab that some suspect of being the source of the Covid-19 outbreak.
The senator last month called for the doctor to be jailed for five years.
He told Fox News’ Sean Hannity: “He has definitely lied to the American public and he should be held responsible. I don’t think the Biden Department of Justice will do anything with it.”
‘JAIL FAUCI’
Fauci denied the allegations. The doctor said: “You are entirely and completely incorrect. The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute.”
Gain-of-function research involves taking a virus and making it more transmissible or pathogenic.
Documents obtained by The Intercept seem to contradict Dr Fauci’s claims.
The documents appear to show the National Institute of Health did give grants to a nonprofit that funneled federal funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research, as reported by the New York Post.
According to the documents, the US government gave $3.1million to health organization EcoHealth Alliance which went into research on bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The project included the testing of thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses.
Nearly $600,000 of the $3.1million in US funding was used in part to find and alter bat coronaviruses that could infect humans.
The grant was awarded between 2014-2019 when funding was renewed before being suspended by the Trump administration in 2020.
DOC UNDER FIRE
As calls grow for Fauci to be jailed, the phrase “Arrest Fauci” started circulating on social media as Americans criticized the boffin.
One Twitter user tweeted: “Get his A** #ArrestFauci.”
They shared a meme of a frantic-looking Fauci running away while being chased by a pack of dogs.
One hound appears to be leaping at the doctor while the other dogs look fierce as they show their gnashers.
Others shared a picture of their pooch with the caption: “My dog Rip says ‘Arrest Fauci’.”
While another social media user tweeted an image of their two dogs standing on their hind legs looking out of the window.
They said: “My puppies are on the lookout for Doctor Death Fauci.”
The Sun has reached out to the NIH for comment but has not yet received a response.
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