Oct 10, 2025 05:23 PM
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EXCERPT: “Is Trump doing the right thing on animal research for the wrong reasons?” asked a Vox article this spring. There’s suspicion that this is just part of the Trump administration’s general anti-science agenda, another way to dismantle laboratories and cast scientists in the role of villains, further undermining public support of science.
“I don’t care about motives,” said Justin Goodman, senior vice president for advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, which seeks to end government funding of animal research. “I care about outcomes.” His group has worked with controversial figures like Laura Loomer to amplify the idea that, as Ms. Loomer put it, our “taxpayer dollars are used for animal torture.” (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPT: “Is Trump doing the right thing on animal research for the wrong reasons?” asked a Vox article this spring. There’s suspicion that this is just part of the Trump administration’s general anti-science agenda, another way to dismantle laboratories and cast scientists in the role of villains, further undermining public support of science.
“I don’t care about motives,” said Justin Goodman, senior vice president for advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, which seeks to end government funding of animal research. “I care about outcomes.” His group has worked with controversial figures like Laura Loomer to amplify the idea that, as Ms. Loomer put it, our “taxpayer dollars are used for animal torture.” (MORE - missing details)