Experts Demand Our Silence While They Experiment on Us, Dogs & Humans

Having your name associated with images of puppies in unbearable pain seems pretty bad. So it’s safe to say it’s been a pretty bad week for Dr. Anthony Fauci. A bipartisan group of congressmen wants to hold hearings on $375,000 of taxpayer money that the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases invested in scientific research in which Tunisians drugged beagles, locked them up, and had sand flies peck at them and deposit larvae on them. The beagles were “de-barked” — a term I can never forget now. It means that their vocal cords were snipped, to spare Tunisian ears. Beagles! What’s next, a revelation that Fauci paid Montenegrins to suffocate American moms in their own apple pies?

Oh, and the puppy thing — that’s not all. The National Institutes of Health issued a letter last week confirming that Fauci, knowingly or unknowingly, lied to Congress when he denied that his office had funded, through grants, research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on how to make bat coronaviruses more infectious in humans.

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Having your name associated with images of puppies in unbearable pain seems pretty bad. So it’s safe to say it’s been a pretty bad week for Dr. Anthony Fauci. A bipartisan group of congressmen wants to hold hearings on $375,000 of taxpayer money that the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases invested in scientific research in which Tunisians drugged beagles, locked them up, and had sand flies peck at them and deposit larvae on them. The beagles were “de-barked” — a term I can never forget now. It means that their vocal cords were snipped, to spare Tunisian ears. Beagles! What’s next, a revelation that Fauci paid Montenegrins to suffocate American moms in their own apple pies?

Oh, and the puppy thing — that’s not all. The National Institutes of Health issued a letter last week confirming that Fauci, knowingly or unknowingly, lied to Congress when he denied that his office had funded, through grants, research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on how to make bat coronaviruses more infectious in humans.