PETA is cheering the year-end resignation of Francis Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health because of the agency’s continued testing on animals.
“From rampant animal welfare abuses at the agency’s own intramural laboratories and its continued funding of science that is ethically and scientifically problematic to its failure to address systemic racism in funding, Collins’ departure is a plus for the future of research,” said People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
“President Joe Biden must find a leader who understands the bigger picture: that protecting human health, securing our nation’s role as a leader in innovation, addressing disparities within the scientific community, and preventing the next pandemic have everything to do with eliminating our reliance on animal experiments and prioritizing human-relevant, animal-free research,” it added.
But activists’ war on federal animal testing isn’t over. They’re also targeting Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is facing additional scrutiny from the White Coat Waste Project because his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recently funded a test that killed 44 beagle puppies.
- The group that brought you the popular bumper sticker “I Don’t Believe The Liberal Media” has lost its research director. After nearly 22 years at the Media Research Center and NewsBusters, Rich Noyes has retired. “I’m looking forward to paying (hopefully) a LOT less attention to the news media in the years to come,” he said. Noyes is best known for blowing the whistle on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lie that in 2008, she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia and had to dodge bullets on the runway.
NEW NewsBusters Podcast: How much has the media changed? We reflect with @RichNoyes as he retires from @theMRC. https://t.co/4PmDpTAKHl
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 2, 2021
- Cappy McGarr, friend of presidents and the founder of the Kennedy Center’s legendary Mark Twain Prize for comedy, has a new memoir out, The Man Who Made Mark Twain Famous. In it, he tells of a meeting with former President Barack Obama and funnyman Bill Murray in which the two played a game of putt-putt in the Oval Office, at a dollar a hole. “The staff initially put down some paper cups, but Bill insisted on glass because evidently, the ‘clink’ of the ball hitting the cup was an essential comedic moment,” he wrote. Murray clinked in all five shots, Obama none.
