Marjorie Taylor Greene Gave A Bizarre Animal Testing Rant Against Fauci. Here’s The Truth.
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The congresswoman’s attempt to blame Dr. Anthony Fauci for animal testing in Africa may have been off-base, but activists say it still hits close to home.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci in an off-topic rant before Congress on Monday while accusing him of personally approving “disgusting and evil” animal testing on dogs that she said Americans have not agreed to pay for.
“I want you to know Americans don’t pay their taxes for animals to be tortured like this,” the far-right congresswoman told the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases while holding up a photo of two beagle test subjects during an unrelated hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic.
“As a dog lover, I want to tell you that this is disgusting and evil, what you signed off on,” she said while appearing to blame a visibly confused Fauci because of his past role as director of the NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health. “The type of science you are representing, Mr. Fauci, is abhorrent and it needs to stop.”
The photo originates from a sand flea experiment involving beagles in the North African country of Tunisia that incorrectly listed the NIAID as a financial sponsor when it was first published in 2021.
The NIAID denied financing the experiment, and the study’s publisher issued a correction amid a firestorm of public attacks on the health agency and Fauci which, as demonstrated through Greene’s remarks on Monday, continues today.
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