Reason

The NIH Deleted Comments Criticizing Animal Testing. A Federal Court Says That Violates the First Amendment.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the First Amendment rights of animal rights activists whose social media comments were deleted by the agency, a federal appeals court ruled last week.
Washington City Paper

The NIH is RFK’s Primate Testing Problem Child

Last month on national TV, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to completely end cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on primates. It was the second such ...
Washington Examiner

NIH stops requests for new studies solely relying on animal testing

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer put out new funding opportunities solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...
The Washington Post

NIH ban on animal testing comments violates speech rules, court says

When the National Institutes of Health put filters on the comment sections of its Facebook and Instagram posts, to restrict “off-topic” messages by the public on matters such as animal testing, it ...