Rand Paul’s Festivus Report Exposes Fauci’s NIH Wasting Taxpayer’s Money on Barbaric Cat Experiments with Electroshock and Brain Mutilation

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has unleashed another scathing edition of his annual Festivus Report, a tradition that lays bare the federal government’s misuse of taxpayer dollars.

This year, Paul’s report shines a glaring spotlight on a deeply unsettling aspect of government spending—barbaric experiments on cats, funded by none other than Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD).

In this year’s #Festivus airing of grievances, Sen. Rand Paul features CAT-astrophic gov waste exposed by WCW

$2M Fauci-funded COVID experiment on cats
$10M to shove marbles up cats’ butts for constipation tests (DOD)
$1.5M to spin cats for motion sickness tests (NIH) pic.twitter.com/sv4WWzBpsX

— White Coat Waste Project ️ (@WhiteCoatWaste) December 23, 2024

According to the report, $1.5 million of taxpayer money has been funneled into barbaric experiments at the University of Pittsburgh.

“If you learned that your money is being used to electro-shock young kittens, torturing them for hours on end, and to the point that they vomit, would you believe it?” according to the report.

It continued, “Since 2019, $1,513,299 worth of taxpayer money has been going to these medieval-type experiments. This is not some distant, dystopian future; it’s happening right now at the University of Pittsburgh, courtesy of a grant from the NIH.”

The experiments, ostensibly designed to study motion sickness, involve the torture of young kittens. These defenseless animals, some as young as four months old, are subjected to horrific treatment, including:

• Electroshock therapy that causes uncontrollable vomiting.
• Spinning them on hydraulic tables to induce severe motion sickness.
• Brain mutilation, including drilling holes into their skulls and decerebrating them—leaving the kittens alive but completely devoid of cognitive function.

More from the report:

“In these nightmarish experiments, female kittens are the preferred victims, selected because they are supposedly more “amenable” to the relentless, inhumane treatment they’re subjected to.

These kittens, often just four to six months old, are first trained to endure long periods of restraint. They’re kept tied down for hours at a time and for weeks on end.

The goal? To force them into submission so that they no longer resist the torture that awaits them.

Once sufficiently “trained,” these kittens are strapped to a hydraulic table that tilts and spins them in all directions—side to side, up and down, and a full 360 degrees, sometimes completing an entire rotation in just five seconds, all in a gruesome effort to induce severe motion sickness. As if that wasn’t enough, their eyes are subjected to bright,flashing lights.

And if the spinning and lights don’t do the trick, researchers inject copper sulfate directly into their stomachs to guarantee that the kittens will vomit.

In an experiment that can only be described as medieval, some of these kittens have holes drilled into their skulls, allowing the researchers to lock their heads into place during the spinning and shocking.  But these aren’t just ordinary cats—they’re “zombified” before the real torment begins.

Through a process known as “decerebration,” the researchers sever or completely remove parts of the kittens’ brains while they’re still alive. This leaves the kittens alive but devoid of any cognitive function, turning them into unresponsive shells that can be spun, shocked, and abused without resistance.

So, what’s the scientific goal here? According to the NIH, the purpose of these experiments is to study how different species, such as cats and monkeys, respond to motion sickness.

The researchers claim that understanding these responses could have implications for human health, potentially aiding in the treatment of conditions like vertigo or helping us understand the effects of space travel on the human body.”

DARPA, a division of the Department of Defense, also comes under fire, with Paul’s report exposing nearly $11 million spent on bizarre experiments at the University of Pittsburgh.

One project involved inserting electrodes into cats’ spinal cords to induce erections, followed by severing their spinal cords to paralyze them—all in the name of studying erectile dysfunction.

Another experiment saw cats subjected to electroshock therapy to address constipation. Researchers inserted “condom-balloons” and marbles into the cats’ rectums, a procedure Paul derisively refers to as “torturing cats to poop marbles.”

According to the report:

“Researchers at University of Pittsburgh sliced open the backs of male cats to expose their spinal cords then inserted electrodes which fired off electric shocks while the incision was still open to make cats have an erection.

But the horror doesn’t end there. These cats were then subjected to even more electric shocks, sometimes for up to 10 minutes at a time, before having their spinal cords severed to paralyze their lower bodies. And just for good measure, the shocks continued for another 10 minutes. All this, in the name of “science.”

If you thought that was bad, brace yourself. In another DARPA-funded experiment, researchers at Pitt attached electrodes to cats’ spinal cords and inserted condom- balloons into their colons and marbles into their rectums. The objective? To force these poor animals to defecate the marbles via electric shock. cxxvi One particularly unfortunate cat had to endure 11 minutes of relentless shocks just to expel four marbles. Apparently, nothing says “national defense” quite like torturing cats to poop marbles.

Your hard-earned money, nearly $11 million of it, was spent on experiments that would be more at home in a dystopian novel than the real world. It’s a grim reminder that, when left unchecked, government spending can drift into realms that defy common sense.”

The White Coat Waste Project, a nonprofit watchdog organization, first highlighted this waste, calling for an end to government-funded animal torture.

WATCH: (Viewer discretion is advised.)

First, White Coat Waste ended kitten testing at the USDA—the fed’s #1 feline lab. Now, we’ve laid waste to all Veterans Affairs labs. We’re proud to have waged the MOST EFFECTIVE effort to end cat experimentation in American history. pic.twitter.com/ZC1IvlCkTX

— White Coat Waste Project ️ (@WhiteCoatWaste) October 10, 2024

In 2021, The Gateway Pundit and White Coat Waste broke the story that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases spent $375,000 in taxpayer dollars to fund abusive experiments on dogs in Tunisia.

One of the tortures that the beagles were subjected to included locking their heads in mesh cages filled with infected sand flies so that the parasite-carrying insects could eat them alive.

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EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Fauci Used Taxpayer Money to Have Dogs Tortured and Eaten Alive By Parasite Infected Flies in Tunisia (PHOTOS)