Dinosaurs chase POTUS towards town hall in pursuit of progressive director of NIH

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October 20, 2021

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Baltimore – Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Francis Collins is stepping down, and PETA supporters in giant inflatable dinosaur costumes will follow President Joe Biden to CNN’s town hall on Thursday with signs that read “Biden, don’t appoint another NIH dinosaur.” … PETA urges the president to lead the country out of the scientific stone age by choosing a forward-looking replacement that will end funding from the animal testing agency and instead invest in modern animal-free research methods.

When: October 21, Thursday, 18.00

Where: Baltimore Center Stage, 700 N. Calvert St., Baltimore

Under Collins’ leadership, the NIH has spent nearly half of its budget – $ 19.5 billion in 2020 – on animal experiments. yearlyeven though 95% of new drugs that are tested for safety and efficacy in animals fail in human clinical trials, and more than 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to cure humans. PETA’s research modernization deal offers a strategy for phasing out this research.

“By clinging to outdated animal experimentation, the NIH gets in the way of good science,” says PETA Senior Vice President Katy Guillermo. PETA Calls On President Biden To Move Us At 21^st century with a new director of the NIH who understands that new therapies, vaccines and drugs will emerge from modern human research. ”

PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human excellence.

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