Did NIH fund painful experiments involving dogs? During a hearing on the coronavirus pandemic this week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) attacked Anthony S. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as she held up a photo of two sedated puppies, their heads placed in mesh cages as they lie on a table while being swarmed by sand flies. As director, she said, "you did sign off on these so-called scientific experiments. And as a dog lover, I want to tell you this is disgusting and evil." Fauci replied: "What does dogs have to do with anything that we're talking about today?" The incident was so jarring that we decided to look into the controversy (which, as Fauci suggested, was unrelated to the subject of the hearing). We originally figured this would be easy to debunk — another in a string of misleading attacks against Fauci, who became the public face of the government's response to the pandemic. But it's more complicated than that, a review of NIH emails and documents obtained by an animal rights group under the Freedom of Information Act suggests. Some of the documents call into question NIH's statements in 2021, when this first became an issue — part of what appears to be a bungled public relations response. Among the issues: the agency did not confirm they did not fund the project in question before issuing a denial to reporters, and it removed the project from a database where reporters could have found it. Click the link to read the full report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Marco Rubio spreads debunked election claims about 2020 ballots In the contest to join former president Donald Trump on the 2024 ticket as his running mate, aspirants have had to follow his path on questioning election integrity in the United States. Many refuse to say they will accept the election results if Trump doesn't win. Some in contention have echoed Trump's falsehoods. In a recent television appearance, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made three specific claims about the 2020 election — one misleading, two debunked. - There were 500 "illegal" drop box locations in Wisconsin. (This was an after-the-fact ruling that is being reconsidered.)
- People in Georgia were paid $10 per vote. (This is a discredited falsehood, withdrawn by the organization that first claimed it.)
- 200,000 signatures didn't match on ballots in Arizona. (This is a theory that has little basis in fact — an extraoplation of a small survey — and was undermined by a state investigation.)
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