Key Points
- NIH used taxpayer cash to inject male monkeys with female hormones to study the high-rate of HIV in transgendered women.
- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) gave Scripps Research $205,562 for the study.
- Dr. Katherine Roe, a neuroscientist with PETA, says the study is “pointless.”
In the latest edition of Don’t Tell Me Where My Tax Dollars Are Going (not a real thing, but maybe it should be) we have the mysterious case of the transgender monkey study. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of health used taxpayer cash to inject male monkeys with female hormones to study the high-rate of HIV in transgendered women.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in December 2021 gave Scripps Research $205,562 for the study.
Fauci has a nefarious track record with animal testing. “It was revealed in November that the NIAID funded a study that infected beagles with heart-worm larvae and euthanized them after experimentations. As part of another study, researchers infected beagles with mutated bacteria from ticks,” the WFB reports.
So, was operation monkey torture worth the data? As it turns out, no —not really. In fact, at least one doctor says it’s shoddy science at best.
Dr. Katherine Roe, a neuroscientist with PETA, says the study is “yet another pointless, wasteful monkey torture experiment. It’s just bad science to suggest that dosing monkeys with feminizing medication makes them good stand-ins for humans,” Roe told the WFB.
“This study will not help to prevent or treat HIV and will not help transgender women.”
Scripps, the research company behind the experiment, stands by it, claiming that testing on sub-populations can help cure fatal diseases.
“The research you reference concerns a sub-population of people at greater risk of HIV infection, and factors that may or may not affect their response to a treatment/preventative approach in development,” a spokeswoman said. “It is through these types of targeted research studies that substantive progress against HIV, cancer, ALS, dementia—indeed most diseases and conditions—will be made.”
As with most issues these days, Americans are split on the use of animals for scientific testing purposes. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 47% of Americans are in favor of the practice, while 52% oppose it.
But we imagine 100% of Americans don’t like what Fauci did to those poor beagles.
