As far as animals go, insert black joke here, you’re not going to get closer to humans in DNA - in a subject upon which research is practical - than rhesus macaques. I’m not sure why anyone thinks we research on them because of “intelligence” or how parrots or crows or dolphins would be a better subject even if they *were* smarter. That’s absurd. And for as much as I love shitting on Fauci and garbage research in general, there could be many reasons why this research might be important, many applications that it could impact. The fact that Candace *doesn’t know what it is* is irrelevant. She is questioning it or condemning it and doesn’t even know if it’s medical, behavioral, psychological, pharmaceutical, she has no idea. Neither do I. And maybe it’s nefarious. Of course that’s a possibility. These people are evil and we all know that. But she is somebody who frequently, and this isn’t unique on the right, sticks her foot firmly in her mouth when she speaks about things she doesn’t know about.