In yet another embarrassing fumble by the far-left activists at PETA, the organization has been caught making stealth edits to an article falsely claiming the Trump administration is funding gruesome experiments on cats in Russia.
The edits come just days after Gateway Pundit and the animal testing watchdog organization White Coat Waste exposed their latest hoax designed to bash the Trump administration and stir up outrage among their donors.
PETA is spreading false & outdated info.
We obtained NIH’s grant to the Swedish lab via FOIA. It lists no $ for cats or Russian collab. Also, after WCW’s campaign that first uncovered the cat tests, Russian labs have been disqualified for NIH $ (directly or indirectly) since… pic.twitter.com/OkgtFFYYxW
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) January 19, 2026
PETA’s original article, which was archived, boldly accused the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of using American tax dollars to bankroll Russian scientist Tatiana Deliagina’s horrific experiments on cats.
According to the archived version, Deliagina’s work dated back to the early 1970s and involved barbaric procedures like removing parts of cats’ brains, severing their spinal cords, implanting electrodes, and even decapitating the animals at Russian institutions like Moscow State University and the Academy of Sciences, with ties to the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg.
PETA claimed Deliagina’s “current NIH grant, which funds experiments on rabbits in Sweden, also funds experiments on cats,” citing a 2025 research paper as evidence.
Sounds horrific, right?
The problem is, as the Gateway Pundit previously reported, NIH hasn’t funded these cat experiments in Russia for three years since White Coat Waste first exposed it, and Republican lawmakers worked with them to cut the funding.
Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, WCW uncovered years ago that the NIH was indeed sending U.S. dollars to the Pavlov Institute for cat mutilation experiments. Thankfully, their relentless campaign, backed by Republican leaders like Rep. Lisa McClain and Sen. Joni Ernst, along with some Democrats, led to a complete defunding.
By 2023, all animal testing in Russian labs became ineligible for NIH grants, saving taxpayers millions and ending the abuse.
WCW’s Senior Vice President Justin Goodman publicly called out PETA on social media, noting that their “new” claims relied on outdated 2025 papers that used pre-2023 data and lacked evidence of ongoing funding.
I hate to defend NIH, but this is fake news from PETA.
In 2022, @WhiteCoatWaste exposed NIH funding for these exact Russian cat experiments, and in 2023, cut the funding for this lab and all other animal labs in Russia.https://t.co/wZJXnStzZM https://t.co/OGsEUIl0Ai pic.twitter.com/fNS13gpy6b
— Justin Goodman (@JustinRGoodman) January 16, 2026
Instead of issuing a correction or apology, PETA quietly tweaked its webpage on January 20 to cover its tracks.
The updated version is now headlined, “Your Tax Money Has Bankrolled Grisly Experiments on Rabbits and Cats—Stop It Now!” Quite the change from the original, “Your Tax Dollars Fund Russian Experiments on Cats—Tell NIH No More!”
Responding to the scandal, Anthony Bellotti, founder and president of White Coat Waste, told The Gateway Pundit:
“We’re obviously no fans of the NIH, but PETA’s claim that the agency is still funding Russian cat tests—the same ones that White Coat Waste defunded years ago—is fake news. The fact that they couldn’t back it up when we challenged them and then they quietly deleted the claim proves it.
White Coat Waste shut down NIH funding for cruel spinal cord injury experiments on cats in Russia—and all other animal testing in Russia—back in 2023 following years of investigations, campaigns, and bipartisan policy efforts with leaders like GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain and Senator Joni Ernst. Thanks to WCW’s campaign, to this day, all Russian animal labs are ineligible to receive NIH funding.
Its worth noting that PETA posted its fake Russian cat lab claim all over the internet but hasn’t once criticized its Fauci-loving friend NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer—who is the NIH’s ‘animal testing czar’—as she defends animal labs and allows tens of millions in new tax funding to flow to painful and deadly experiments on dogs, cats, primates and other animals and other countries (aside from Russia) around the world.”
This isn’t PETA’s first time running with fake news.
PETA has a history of spreading misinformation and trying to steal credit for White Coat Waste’s work.
In 2021, PETA falsely claimed “Trump did nothing to stop animal experimentation,” ignoring the administration’s historic steps working with WCW to stop some of the government’s worst animal testing abuses.
PETA even tried to smear WCW in The New Yorker out of apparent jealousy over their real victories, stating, “White Coat Waste has young-male-testosterone energy, and it seems like they attack all the other groups for fundraising purposes.”
Goodman responded at the time by telling The Gateway Pundit:
“We’re proud of our hard-hitting campaigns and historic victories against government animal labs that made this issue high politics, front page news, and won the support of President Trump, his family, and his administration. We’ll never apologize for aggressively fighting to save animals from government abuse and to hold federal bureaucrats accountable for lying to taxpayers and wasting animals’ lives and taxpayers’ money. PETA hates us because they ain’t us.”
White Coat Waste Project deserves massive credit for its tireless work exposing government waste and animal cruelty.
Unlike PETA, which is infamously euthanizing thousands of adoptable pets in its own shelter, WCW delivers real results through facts, FOIA battles, and bipartisan advocacy.
White Coat’s campaigns have saved countless animals and billions in taxpayer dollars, while holding both bloated government agencies and leftist animal rights groups accountable.
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