I'm not down with animal mutilation, especially for that stuff.

Everything I can find shows it was hormone treatments - no mutilation. But I also have no problem with animal studies - if it can be done just as well another way - fine, but if not, I'm OK with it.

Then there's Fauci's Mengele-like treatment of Beagles

The study was not funded by NIAID,

Studies in Tunisia

In its August post, the White Coat Waste Project said its investigators had discovered photos and government records showing that the NIAID awarded over $375,000 in funding for a study in Tunisia “to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hundreds of infected sand flies.” However, both the NIAID and the journal that published a paper on the study have since said the NIH did not fund that research.

“That’s right: these taxpayer-funded white coats intentionally had the insects eat these beagles alive,” the post said, adding that beagles were also locked “in cages in the desert overnight for nine consecutive nights to use them as bait to attract infectious sand flies.”

The photos, which have been shared widely online, were pulled from a paper about a study that investigated whether the flies were more attracted to dogs with or without leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease found in the tropics, subtropics and southern Europe. The paper, published this past summer, originally said the authors received funding for the research from the Wellcome Trust foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

But NIAID said it did not fund the study in question.

“The images of beagles were drawn from a manuscript published in July 2021 in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The manuscript mistakenly cited support from NIAID, when in fact NIAID did not support this specific research shown in the images of the beagles being circulated,” the NIAID said in a statement a spokesperson emailed to us.

factcheck.org - Answering questions about beaglegate

The studies they did fund were to vaccinate dogs against disease carried by sand fleas. And them let them out in an area with sand fleas to see how well the vaccination protected them.