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FTA:

>The project ran from 2014 to 2020 and received more than $4.2m in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding

> The experiments were part of a project that ran for six years until 2020.

Thanks Obama.

there was a change of power halfway through that

I wish Obama was president in 2020.

He was president in 2014 and these kind of projects are planned and funded well before.

Honestly, it's embarrassing how much better this administration has been on animal testing compared to Democratic administrations. They've done a lot to hasten the end of animal testing, including putting pressure on institutions to find alternatives.

This is a wildly dishonest take. The only reason there's less animal testing now is that they defunded science across the board. The current administration absolutely does not care about animal rights.

No, they've accelerated the phase out of animal testing for drug approval at FDA. For example: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-anno...

I'm not inclined to give this administration the benefit of the doubt, but in this one small area they've done well, IMO.