Letter to Senator Schumer about NIH Wasteful Funding - 2 Mar 2009

2 March 2009

The Honorable Charles E. Schumer
313 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Schumer:

We urge you to investigate the large amount of federal dollars wasted on unnecessary animal research that is driven by an �old boys� network� in the National Institute of Health�s peer review system that uses outdated animal research methods at the expense of innovative and modern human-centered methodologies. The result is billions of dollars wasted and millions of animal lives lost.

As one example, the federal government is currently spending at least $47 million on nicotine/tobacco-related animal experiments which have continued for decades, even as the lethal effects of smoking are well-known. Yet smoking prevention/cessation programs are under-funded.

Please address the many such areas of government waste.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Frank L. Hoffman

Mary T. Hoffman

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