EXCLUSIVE: American Taxpayers are Still Funding Animal Tests at Iranian and Chinese Labs

You may have heard about the 43 monkeys who recently escaped a South Carolina breeding colony and research lab. We’re now learning more about where the primates confined at this shady government-funded facility end up.

A new investigation led by the White Coat Waste Project has unearthed how U.S. taxpayer dollars are funding heinous experiments on these primates conducted in collaboration with researchers in Iran and China.

These findings are the latest in WCW’s ongoing investigation into reckless government spending on wasteful, inhumane, and dangerous animal experiments conducted by our foreign adversaries.

Records analyzed by WCW show that a Vanderbilt University researcher who has received over $20 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation has been collaborating on cruel monkey tests with various Iranian institutions, including Iran’s Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences and the Iran University of Science and Technology.

The U.S. taxpayer-funded primate tests are also being conducted in conjunction with China’s government-run Sun Yat Sen University.

Documents reveal that the NIH, NSF, and the Department of Veterans Affairs funneled millions into these experiments involving severe primate abuse.

In these studies, monkeys had holes drilled into their skulls, electrodes inserted into their brains, and were forced into restraints to watch computer screens for extended periods.

Not only are these collaborations cruel, but they may also directly violate U.S. sanctions against Iran, which strictly prohibit such scientific exchanges, and sanctions against China’s Sun Yat-Sen University, which the Department of Defense and Commerce flags as a threat to national security.  

A WCW investigation last year uncovered that Sun Yat-Sen University cripples beagles in heinous experiments and that its one of 26 animal labs in China still approved to receive U.S. tax dollars from the NIH for testing on dogs, primates, and other species.

“For years, we’ve been following the money—and the monkeys—to unaccountable animal labs in China and other foreign countries. We’ve now unearthed how U.S. taxpayers are unknowingly underwriting wasteful and cruel brain experiments on primates performed with sanctioned laboratories in China and Iran. Three out of four taxpayers—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike—oppose federal funding for foreign adversaries’ animal labs. The Trump Administration and DOGE need to ditch this dangerous monkey business on day one,” said Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President at White Coat Waste Project.

The primates abused in the China and Iran collaborations were procured from South Carolina’s Alpha Genesis, a notorious government-funded breeding facility that has a long track record of abuses and has recently been in the news for allowing dozens of monkeys to escape.

Alpha Genesis has received over $110 million in federal funding, including to manage Anthony Fauci’s Monkey Island that holds over 3,000 primates for future testing.

In 2021, Gateway Pundit was the first outlet to cover WCW’s investigation exposing Fauci’s beagle torture.

WCW also first exposed Fauci’s funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology and has worked with Senator Rand Paul to highlight other wasteful government animal testing. 

WCW recently released a cost-savings plan for the new Trump Administration that includes defunding animal testing labs in China, cutting funding for dog and cat tests, and more. 

President Trump’s longtime adviser, Roger Stone, endorsed the plan and said, “We must stop this madness.”

Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) told the press, “Working with White Coat Waste, I’ve stopped Fauci’s cruel beagle tests, clipped the wings off batty spending at the Wuhan lab, and defunded the mad scientists at EcoHealth Alliance. I’m excited to collaborate with WCW and the Trump administration to stop all wasteful spending in China and end the monkey business. Washington needs to keep its paws off taxpayers’ money.”

President Trump has vowed to take a hard line to curb the influence and operational capacities of China and Iran. And his Department of Government Efficiency is looking for waste to cut. WCW’s plan to defund animal tests in the US and overseas is a great start.

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